The Vine Witch (The Vine Witch, #1)

by Luanne G. Smith

Inside, the room looked the same as she’d left it, with bottles, jars, and dried herbs lining the built-in shelves on one wall. The worktable, which took up half the space, still held her scale for measuring pinches and dollops and the small burner with the glass beaker she used for reducing her concoctions to their purest form. On the shelf, a granite grinding mortar had been propped up as a bookend to hold her half-dozen spell books with the gold-embossed spines.