

What were you like as a young reader, and how did that influence the book that you’re debuting this year? And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated?īut when a terrifying new magic threatens both his village and the coven, Ryder must confront the beautiful and silent witch who holds all the secrets.Įverything he’s ever believed about witches, the Baen, magic and about himself will change, when he discovers that the prophecies he’s always scorned.

He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes-one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future.Īt least, that’s what Ryder thinks. Lena Coakley is the first-time author of Witchlanders (Atheneum, 2011).
