A Sorceress Comes to Call

Cordelias mamma styr hennes liv med en järnhand, med hjälp av magi innebär det att mamman till och med kan tvinga henne att vara helt tyst eller stilla. Efter en misstänksam död i deras lilla by rider de bort mitt i natten och får stanna till på ett gods. Mammans nya plan blir att gifta sig med godsägaren. Men Hester, syster till godsägaren, anar ugglor i mossen när hon ser hur rädd Cordelia är för sin mamma. För att rädda sin bror och Cordelia bestämmer sig Hester för att besegra den onda häxan.

Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms, there are no secrets in this house!? Cordelia isn't allowed to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him.

But more than a few quirks set her mother apart. Other parents can’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless, obedient, for hours or days on end. Other mothers aren’t . . . sorcerers.

After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia’s mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away together on Falada’s back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia’s mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage. Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister.

And indeed Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother. How the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.