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High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future. It’s all a fake. At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can... read more

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  • Ryder: The main character - Witchlander
  • Skyla: Ryder's eldest younger sister
  • Mabis: Ryder's mother
  • Falpian: Main character - Baen
  • Lilla Red Bird: Mabis's sister. A boneshaker and hero of the war.
  • Pima: Ryder's youngest sister
  • Visser: A witch elder with a grudge against Mabis
  • Aata's Right Hand: A witch who has taken the vow of silence and a boneshaker for the coven
  • Bo: Falpien's dreadhound
  • Kef: Ryder's childhood friend. Now a member of the coven
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “An assassin's first murder is himself. He kills the man he was.”

First Sentence edit see section history

Ryder woke up to the sound of clattering bones.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part One
Chapter 1 - Flowers and Bones
Chapter 2 - The Skin of the Sea
Chapter 3 - The White Witch
Chapter 4 - Barbiza
Chapter 5 - The Right Hand of Aata
Chapter 6 - Maiden's Woe
Chapter 7 - A Spot Upriver
Chapter 8 - The Chilling
Chapter 9 - The Coven
Part Two
Chapter 10 - Haunted
Chapter 11 - The Crouching Spider
Chapter 12 - Assassin's Heart
Chapter 13 - Dreadhounds
Chapter 14 - Assassin's Key
Chapter 15 - The Best Jokes
Chapter 16 - The Goddess Has Stained Your Eyes
Part Three
Chapter 17 - Talat-Sa
Chapter 18 - In The Chamber of Aata and Aayse
Chapter 19 - Yarma
Chapter 20 - The Black Witch
Chapter 21 - A Casting of Bones
Chapter 22 - Thieves
Chapter 23 - All the Nightmares
Chapter 24 - The Tomb
Chapter 25 - The Many Eyes of Ka
Chapter 26 - The Gormy Man
Chapter 27 - Raiken's Farm
Chapter 28 - The Bitterlands

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lena Coakley (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Atheneum
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 30, 2011
ISBN: 9781442420045
Page Count: 411

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Definitely appropriate for teens and tweens. Some scary monsters and people for that matter. Magic and different gods. Witches are really priestesses of the Goddess. It's not Earth.


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