title: Tarnished and Torn: A Witchcraft Mystery
author:  Juliet Blackwell 
description: Juliet Blackwell sits firmly on my list of must-read authors.<i>New York Times </i>Bestselling Author Victoria Laurie<br /><br /><b>Praise for Juliet Blackwells Witchcraft Mysteries</b><br /><br />A smashingly fabulous tale.<i>New York Times </i>Bestselling Author Victoria Laurie<br /><br />Extraordinarily entertaining.<i>Suspense Magazine</i>
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  All magical requests come with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends,
  and only her mother’s bees to confide in will pay whatever’s necessary to keep
  the girl she loves safe.
  
  
  
  
  
  I was somebody’s firstborn child, the price somebody paid for gold and a
  spotlight. I was made to be given away to a woman with the wisdom of the bees.
  Mama sends me to school with perfect braids plaited up tight, buys me new
  clothes each spring and each fall, and though she wards me against sickness,
  accident, or ill-wish, she doesn’t love me.
  
  
  No one has ever loved me, not for my whole life.
  
  
  
  
  
  Jefferson carries my schoolbag and my lunch (but never my book) and helps me
  inside Mama’s white-walled, tail-finned C