A review by amberinpieces
Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

5.0

Tamsin Greene grew up believing she was the only ordinary person in her family of witches. She had absolutely no power and she always wondered if her wise grandmother was embarrassed about her prophecy that named Tamsim as the most powerful and a beacon for them all. Then, after the appearance of Alistair Callum and her deal to help him find a lost object, Tamsin and fellow witch and love interest, Gabriel, traveled through time and revealed many secrets. It turned out that Tamsin always had power and only a few members of her family knew - and kept it from her. It was her grandmother’s decision and in Always a Witch, readers find out why.

The Domani is safe from Alistair and the Knight family, but only in the present. The Greenes are fairly sure that Alistair went back to a time before the Domani was created. They do not know what he is up to but they can be sure he has not succeeded in changing history since the present is still the same. But when something strange happens in the Greene’s own house, Tamsin and grandmother realize that she needs to travel back in time…to Victorian New York City.

In a time before Tamsin’s family bought a residence in the city, she finds their rival instead: the Knight family, headed by the matron known to the Greene’s as La Spider. She goes undercover as a lady’s maid to La Spider’s daughter in order to spy on the family and do everything she can to keep Alistair from making contact with them. But there is not much time and things escalate as Tamsin finally realizes the difficult choice the prophecy said she has to make.

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