title: Sacred Scars (A Resurrection of Magic, Book 2)
author:  Kathleen Duey 
description: Kathleen Dueys works include the middle grade American Diaries and Survivors series, as well as the well-reviewed chapter book series The Unicorns Secret and its companion series, The Faeries Promise. She is also the National Book Awardnominated author of <i>Skin Hunger</i>. She lives in Fallbrook, California.
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  “Where is she?” Terrance screamed in the witch’s face, losing his temper. He
  had held her prisoner for a full day now, and she had done nothing but toy
  with him. He hated witches.
  
  
  “Mother is everywhere. She is life and death. Light and dark,” the woman spoke
  in a sing song voice. “You cannot find her. When she wants you, she will come
  for you and never before.”
  
  
  “She’s already come for me once before.” Closing his fist, he looked down at
  his dark brown skin. Scars everywhere. He couldn’t see them. When he had been
  rescued, he was taken to a supernatural doctor who was able to hide the scars
  from human eyes. But he could feel them hot and waxy over his skin, and they…
  they could see them. For anyone more than simply human, his scars showed up
  like bright warning lights of what he had once been, completely covering his
  chest and back and writhing their way up his neck all the way to his chin.
  
  
  Terrance smashed his fist against the warm concrete under him until