Lady of Shadows (Lady of Darkness, #2)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

Hazel’s violet eyes widened in surprise. “What does that mean?” Scarlett pressed. Tears welled in the Witch’s eyes, and Scarlett stepped back, stunned. “It means,” Hazel said, her voice softer than it had been all day, “that you know my son and that it is time for him to return.” “Your son? But Witches don’t—” she stopped herself before she finished what she was going to say. The Witches despised men. Male children were looked at as a curse, not a blessing. “You are right,” Hazel replied, as if she could read her thoughts. “We do not. But when he was born, I could not kill him. He was my child. My son. I enlisted the help of Queen Eliné, and she helped me smuggle him to another land. Where he went, neither of us knew. We couldn’t know, to keep him safe. But the Oracle told me that one would come who would know him, and when she came, he could return.”