MAEVE THE PENTAGRAM SPELL

There is a question at the center of this novel that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Not a question about witches, though one appears. Not a question about love, though the book is soaked in it. It is the question you never think to ask until a story like this forces it into the open.

Can unconditional love be stolen?

Not borrowed. Not imitated. Stolen. Taken from the person who carries it and redirected through careful, deliberate, patient work until it flows somewhere it was never meant to go.

This is what Maeve O Sullivan wants. She has wanted it since she was a red haired girl born into a storm on Ireland's west coast, every lamp in the house blazing on at the exact moment of her first cry. Her grandmother looked at the copper hair and said simply; "She is cursed. She will bring nothing but trouble."

This novel understands that Maeve's story is not about someone who became dangerous. It is about someone who was told, before she had any say, what she was, and who spent decades deciding what to do with that.

The Pentagram Spell is not a metaphor. It is a five stage working from a grimoire older than the city Maeve now calls home, annotated by women who came close and fell short. If completed, it grants access to genuine unbridled power, seized from a natural vessel and redirected. But her desire must remain the instrument. The moment she becomes the object, everything reverses.

Maeve sits down beside Jesse in a Los Angeles pub. His partner Nicole asked for time and space, not from doubt but to learn to want her own life before sharing it. Jesse takes a consulting contract, puts the Bible that Nicole on the passenger seat, and drives east trusting love survives distance.

What follows is one of the most precisely rendered seductions in recent fiction. Maeve is not performing warmth. She is warm. She does not press. She accumulates.

Underneath it all, the working is moving.

You already know what this book is really about. This novel will make you feel it.

Go read it. But leave your lights on.

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