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    Witch Granted  The Kilorian Sisters: A Witches of Shadow Lake Mystery Book 8  K. J. Emrick S. J. Wells       First published in Australia by South Coast Publishing, April 2022. Copyright K.J. Emrick (2012-22)  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and locations portrayed in this book and the names herein are fictitious. Any similarity to or identification with the locations, names, characters or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and unintentional. - From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations. All rights reserved. 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There isn’t a single one of us, reading these words, who isn’t affected emotionally by what they see happening. From the beginning of the Kilorian sisters books we have been blessed to have someone in these pages from that country. Domovyk the cat is proud of his heritage. In the middle of all of these uniquely Irish characters (and some uniquely not-human characters, as well) he has remained staunchly Ukrainian, dignified and smart and dedicated to his new friends. To quote something he says later in this book, “It’s not always easy for a Ukrainian to fit in anywhere but Ukraine.” We hear you, Dom. We’re better for having known you, and we’re all looking forward to the day when glory and freedom can ring through your land again. KJE and SJW   To Judy T-B I know you are a big fan of the series so this final book is dedicated to you. Thank you for all of your support over the years. K.J.   Prologue  In the history of the world, no one has ever gotten history right. That was the thought that kept running through Sinead Kilorian’s mind as she sat reading the Books of Ab Ithel, page by page. The books themselves were huge, and heavy, and although they were nearly a thousand years old they had only been seen by a few select people. If her American cousins, Willow and Adair and Kiera Kilorian, didn’t have them in their library at Stonecrest, Sinead wouldn’t have her hands on them now. No one in the wider world even knew these tomes existed. In these pages were the comprehensive histories of the Irish clans, dating back to the time of the Druids, and generations before that. Back when the inhabitants of the Emerald Isles were only known as “The People.” Their world might have been small, but their understanding of that world was anything but. Which meant somewhere in these pages might be a clue to where they could find the evil witch, Belladonna Nightshade. Having escaped her prison, she was loose in the world again and they needed to find her. She continued to read. There were copies of two of the books in the Ab Ithel Histories in the John Hay Library in Rhode Island. Those books were mostly poetry, and very few people knew about the John Hay Library anyway. Volume one and two of the Books of Ab Ithel were there, not far from three books bound in human skin and a few clay tablets from Babylon, and personal letters written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was an interesting collection, to say the least. The rest of the Ab Ithel Histories were here at Stonecrest, the ancient New England home of the clan Kilorian. The library here in the old homestead was far more extensive and eclectic than the one at John Hay, with books on subjects from the arcane to the mundane…although there were no books bound in human skin here. Sinead was glad there wasn’t, because bibliopegy was just ew. Not everything in the books was a secret. Some of the