The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

by Josiah Bancroft

Iz had let herself be duped because the source of the lie had been a kindred spirit. What a broad and nearly fatal flaw! Though wasn’t that, Isolde reflected, just one of provincialism’s many flaws? The errant belief that it was the outsider, the alien, the other who was the real danger ignored the fact that most violent crimes were intimate in their origins.