Chapter ONE - Weebly

You find out what those spells did and you’ll find
your killer. That’s what Janna had told him. But even
after hearing this, and recognizing the wisdom in her
words, he hadn’t altered his approach to his inquiry.
Ethan had been assuming that the murderer killed
Jennifer Berson because of who she was or who she
knew. But what if she was killed simply because she
was there, in the streets of Boston, at precisely the
wrong time? What if her murderer had never intended
to kill the daughter of a wealthy merchant, but had been
looking merely for someone—anyone—who was alone
in the city and young enough to provide, through her
death, the power necessary for an ambitious conjuring?
Rather than trying to link the killer to Jennifer Berson,
Ethan should have been searching for the object of his
spell.
Janna had given him another clue as well, though he
hadn’t realized it at the time; he was sure she hadn’t
either. She told him that she had used a killing spell to
compel someone to love a wealthy man. This wasn’t
surprising, really; control spells were among the most
difficult castings known to the conjuring world. They