Vroege RecensentenRebecca Henry

From Exciting Young Adult Romance Author Rebecca Henry

Book one in the Ambrosia Hill series

She was sent away because of her feelings for another girl. But what she discovered at her aunts’ lake house was a birthright of magic.

Thirteen-year-old Zinnia is about to turn fourteen when her life is flipped upside down. With her parents on the brink of a divorce, Zinnia is sent to spend the summer with her eccentric great-aunts at their lake house away from her home in Manhattan. Zinnia arrives at her aunts’ massive Victorian house with a heavy heart after a recent falling out with her best friend Charlotte, who betrayed her trust by showing the meanest and most popular girl in school a letter Zinnia wrote confessing her feelings for Charlotte. The aunts rely on practical magic, acceptance and old family friends to help heal their great-niece in more ways than one.

What Zinnia discovers on Ambrosia Hill is more than just her birthright to magic—she meets Billie, a girl who conjures feelings inside Zinnia that she can no longer deny.

When feelings are more than a warning, they become haunting.

Eighteen-year-old Serena is attending university on the west coast when her life is flipped upside down. With the untimely death of her parents, Serena returns to New York City to care for her seven-year-old brother, Jack. As financial pressures mound, Serena makes the difficult decision of moving them to their heritage lake house in Upstate.
Jack hasn’t spoken since their parent’s death and Serena’s only focus is learning how to become a full-time mother to her little brother with the hope that she can save him from his sorrow. But when the siblings arrive in the isolated town of Korwin Grove, they realize their family’s name raises eyebrows from the townsfolk as the two settle into the Korwin abandoned lake home.

The word witch is whispered in the air whenever the locals see Serena and it doesn’t take long for the siblings to discover that things inside the gothic house are not what they appear to be. The more Serena discovers about the townsfolk, the more she questions everyone’s motives. Including her new crush on a girl named Ashton who just happened to appear in time to rescue Serena from a dark and looming presence within the house. An ancient witch has cursed Conjure Lake and if they stay in Korwin Cottage, they may never make it out alive.

Can Serena trust her feelings for the good-looking and confident Ashton or should she keep her wall up and rely on her newfound witch abilities to save herself and her brother Jack from Alice Lake?

Conjure Lake is a story that will make you question everything you’ve ever been told about ghosts.