Witches

By Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Book 1. A good witch must fight and defeat an evil witch from another time. There are witches in the world…some are good and some of them are downright evil.

Amanda Givens is careful how she uses her benevolent powers. She doesn't want the people of Canaan, Connecticut to know they have a witch among them…even a good white witch. For years, she's lived quietly in a remote cabin with Amadeus, her quirky feline familiar. At first with her husband, Jake, the love of her life, until a car accident; but now alone after his death. But when she's wrongly blamed for a rash of ritualistic murders committed by a satanic cult, she knows she can no longer hide. She's the one the cult is after and she is the only one who can stop them and prove her innocence. Yet as punishment for fighting and destroying the cult, she's drawn back in time by the ghost of the dark witch, Rachel Coxe, who was drowned for practicing black magic in the 17th century. Now, as Amanda tries to rehabilitate Rachel's reputation in an effort to save lives, as well as her own, and falls in love all over again with Joshua, her reincarnated dead husband from the future, she has to rely on a sister's love and magical knowledge, and a powerful sect of witches named the Guardians, to help her get home safely.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kathryn Meyer Griffith
• Release date: Nov 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516358502

Kathryn Meyer Griffith

About Kathryn Meyer Griffith...Since childhood I’ve been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun writing novels at 21, almost fifty years ago now, and have had thirty-one (romantic horror, horror novels, romantic SF horror, romantic suspense, romantic time travel, historical romance, thrillers, non-fiction short story collection, and murder mysteries) previous novels and thirteen short stories published from various traditional publishers since 1984. But, I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way since 2012; and upon getting all my previous books’ full rights back for the first time have self-published all of them. My five Dinosaur Lake novels and Spookie Town Murder Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Ghosts Beneath Us, Witches Among Us, What Lies Beneath the Graves, All Those Who Came Before, When the Fireflies Returned) are my best-sellers.I’ve been married to Russell for over forty-three years; have a son, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois. We have a quirky cat, Sasha, and the three of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk/classic rock singer in my youth with my late brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die...or until my memory goes.2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *Finalist* for her horror novel The Last Vampire ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * Finalist * for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.*All Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s 31 novels and 13 short storiesare available everywhere in eBooks, paperbacks and audio books.Novels and short stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith:Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forged, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire (2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Horror category), Witches, Witches II: Apocalypse, Witches plus Witches II: Apocalypse, The Nameless One erotic horror short story, The Calling, Scraps of Paper (The First Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Things Slip Away (The Second Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Ghosts Beneath Us (The Third Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Witches Among Us (The Fourth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), What Lies Beneath the Graves (The Fifth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Those Who Came Before (The Sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), When the Fireflies Returned (The Seventh Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Egyptian Heart, Winter’s Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don’t Look Back, Agnes, A Time of Demons and Angels, The Woman in Crimson, Human No Longer, Six Spooky Short Stories Collection, Haunted Tales, Forever and Always Romantic Novella, Night Carnival Short Story, Dinosaur Lake (2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Thriller/Adventure category), Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising, Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation and Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars, Dinosaur Lake V: Survivors, Dinosaur Lake VI: The Alien Connection, Memories of My Childhood and Christmas Magic 1959.Her Websites:Twitter: https://twitter.com/KathrynG64My Blog: https://kathrynmeyergriffith.wordpress.com/My Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/KathrynMeyerGriffith67/Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.meyergriffith.7http://www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffithhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/889499.Kathryn_Meyer_Griffithhttp://en.gravatar.com/kathrynmeyergriffithhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-meyer-griffith-99a83216/https://www.pinterest.com/kathryn5139/You Tube REVIEW of Dinosaur Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDtsOHnIiXQ&pbjreload=101

Reviews for Witches

[rubyandthetwins · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

For my #10 challenge (Reader's Choice), I read Witches by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. Amanda Givens is a white witch - a witch who uses her powers for good. She lives alone in a cabin in the woods of Canaan, Connecticut with her feline familiar, Amadeus. When Amanda is wrongly blamed for a rash of ritualistic murders committed by a Satanic cult, she is inevitably drawn back in time by the ghost of Rachel Coxe, a dark witch who was drowned for practicing black magic in the 17th century.Now, as Amanda tries to rehabilitate Rachel's reputation in an effort to save her own life, she has to rely on a sister's love and magical knowledge, and a powerful sect of witches named the Guardians to help Amanda get home safely. I give this romantic horror story an A+! I thought it was great.

[arlenadean · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Author: Kathryn Meyer GriffithPublished By: Damination BooksAge Recommend: AdultReviewed By: Arlena DeanRaven Rating: 5Review:"Witches" by Kathryn Meyer Griffith was quite some new read for me and I enjoyed this paranormal read. Be ready for some horror, mystery and a little bit of romance to see how Ms. Griffith well cover the storytelling in "Witches." There was two witches...a good witch who was Amanda Givens..white witch in that used her powers for only good living in a cabin in the wood of Canaan, Connecticut with her cat, Amadeus. However, life for her would be turned ugly in that she was wrongly blamed for murders that had been committed by a Satanic Cult... 'drawned back in time by this ghost of Rachel Coxe, who was a dark witch who had drowned for being involved in black magic during the 17th century.' All of this end up being a true good vs. evil....light versus dark. The difference between good witches and bad witches...and then enters Karma which will be in the end ...then the concept of the Guardian is something now that comes. Now, just what am I talking about... trying not to spill any of this...... so, this will be the time that I say you must pick up "Witches" and see just what it is all about. This will be a very interesting read for you. Be ready for some fun stuff like magic.. ... Amanda had a cat... her sister (Jesse) had a mouse...which was funny with its cowardly lion impression and squeaky voices ...oh well... pick up the read! I found this a excellent book which offers witchcraft with love, lot and lots of adventure. If you are in for a good paranormal magic with many weird twist with some elements of romance and even some family blending......I would recommend "Witches" as a good read to you.

[arthistorychick · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

All readers know about the reading slump, that damnable period of time when you just can’t settle into a book. Nothing you pick up can hold your attention and you begin to wonder if you have lost your reading mojo. I got my mojo back when I picked up Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Witches. When I peruse the paranormal section of my favorite used bookstore, I don’t normally gravitate toward books that focus on witches and witchcraft. To be completely honestI didn’t find this book, it found me and I am rather glad that it did. The premise of the novel is quite simple: Amanda is a white witch who finds herself pulled into a nefarious plot constructed by none other than Satan himself. Amanda’s vulnerability is the element that will draw you into the book. Amanda is introduced to us as a woman who is all but crippled by the grief she feels following the death of her beloved husband, Jake. At the same time we find out that Amanda is far from weak and is in fact one of the world’s most powerful white witches. It takes Griffith a bit too long to pull Amanda, and by extension the reader out of the mourning period and into the thick of the plot. As Amanda is dealing with her grief, the town of Canaan, Connecticut where she lives is experiencing a rash of violent, cult-like killings. Many in the town are suspicious of Amanda and suspect she is behind the killings or at the very least is involved in them. By the time Amanda gets her head on straight it’s too late – the cult publically implicates Amanda in an effort to draw her out. Here’s the rub: the cult not only draws Amanda out but traps her in Canaan, Connecticut at the end of the seventeenth century. Oh yes, dear reader, that would be the right time and the right place for the witch trials.It is at this point that Griffith takes a very bold and risky step; she begins to move the novel back and forth through time with Amanda in the late seventeenth century and her sister, Rebecca in the twenty-first century working to bring her sister home. This type of “time travel” works nicely with both the plot and the geography and allows Griffith to further develop Amanda and her sister as strong central characters. This type of writing could have easily gone horribly wrong for Griffith but it did not. She manages to not only move between the two time periods but to connect them as well! The bottom line? I have three dislikes: 1) the afore mentioned sluggish nature of the first part of the novel and 2) the rather underdeveloped qualities of the minor characters, in particular, Amanda and Rebecca’s familiars Amadeus and Tibby. Griffith actually gives these two characters their own “human” voices which in turn creates a great potential for further development(s) within the plot. Unfortunately, that never happened. Finally, 3) the unanswered questions regarding the Guardians and who they really are.Overall I did enjoy this book and the plot in particular as it appealed to my love of historical fiction without actually being historical fiction. I also liked the author’s voice – it is an older voice that imbued both Amanda and Rebecca with mature voices of their own. That is, Amanda and Rebecca are women who have lived, loved, and lost and came out stronger for it on the other side. This is a quality that I very much appreciated. I also have a feeling, and it’s only a sneaking suspicion really, that the things I disliked about the novel are not oversights on the author’s part but things that are going to be dealt with in a later novel. A girl can hope, right?