Mr. & Mrs. Witch


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 Title Page
 Copyright Notice
 Dedication
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 1. Savvy
 2. Griffin
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 4. Griffin
 
 One Year Ago
 
 5. The Goddess and the Professor
 6. The Goddess and the Professor
 7. The Goddess and the Professor
 
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 8. Savvy
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 Ten Months Ago
 
 10. The Goddess and the Professor
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 12. Griffin
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 Nine Months Ago
 
 16. The Goddess and the Professor
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 18. Griffin
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 21. The Goddess and the Professor
 
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 22. Savvy
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 28. The Goddess and the Professor
 
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 29. Griffin
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 33. Griffin
 
 Two Days Ago
 
 35. Griffin and Savvy
 
 Now
 
 35. Griffin and Savvy
 
 Acknowledgments
 Also by Gwenda Bond
 About the Author
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 To all of us who’ve ever tried to twitch our noses and make things happen
 And for Kami and Sam, because I can’t dedicate the books we’re writing together to you
 
 
 I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch.
 —Bewitched
 Witch. From the Anglo-Saxon word wicce, German wissen, “to know,” and wikken, “to divine.” The witches were at first called “wise women,” until the day when the Church took it unto herself to follow the law of Moses, which put every “witch” or enchantress to death.
 —H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (1892)
 
 
 
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 Savvy
 
 
 This is the most something day—weirdest, definitely the weirdest—of Savvy’s life, and it’s barely past noon.
 “Do you think your flower crown should have more hemlock?” Savvy’s best friend Brie squints at her in the rearview mirror of the car she’s driving along the dirt-and-gravel road.
 Savvy’s in the back seat with a garment bag holding The Dress, capital letters, and another with the pink dress Brie plans to wear in her role as maid of honor. There’s also a duffel her other best friend Elle, short for Louise, handed her as they piled in to leave for the venue.
 “No, it will overpower the rue,” Elle says. Elle is in her chic suit already and has planned this entire day within an inch of its life.
 Underlying their fussing is the actual question her best friends are not brave enough to ask her: Is Savvy hexing Wilde really about to get married? To a regular human man?
 Savvy never indulged in fantasies about her wedding while growing up. There were some other little witches who swooned over the fairy tale of the pitiful frog who could be transformed back into a much-reformed prince by the right witch and then put a ring on it. Or the story of the witch who saved the father and his three stepdaughters by banishing bad fairies from their