Book one of the Urban Trilogy, the contemporary cycle of the Evans witches' inheritance and the price of the Craft.
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Reut Barak · 5 series · 8 novels · 2024–2025
Some families hand down silver and land. The Evans women hand down the Craft — and the bill that always comes with it. Here magic is never free: a spell cast is a debt owed, and love, the most dangerous working of all, has a way of unmaking the people who reach for it. Reut Barak's world is a witch's inheritance carried through Scottish mist and the fae-thin air of the Isle of Skye, where the old bloodlines and the older courts have never fully stopped bargaining. It is a compact, single-author world rather than a sprawling one, braided from four short cycles that each catch the lineage in a different key: the Time Travel Trilogy slips it through history, the Urban Trilogy drops it into modern streets, Fae of Skye walks it into the thorned courts of the fair folk, and the Spark Trilogy carries its own thread of the family's magic. The books lean character-first and romance-warmed, the fantasy grounded in kin, loyalty, and consequence. The cycles read largely self-contained, and no author-decreed sequence surfaces, so a newcomer can enter by whichever premise calls loudest — the Time Travel Trilogy serves as clean a doorway as any into the Evans line. Come for witches who pay for what they conjure; stay for a family that keeps conjuring anyway.
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Three ways in. Pick the one that sounds like you.
1 series · 3 works
1 series · 3 works
1 series · 1 work
1 series · 1 work
Evans Witches World at the centre, 5 branches around it.
What this universe published, when, and what it is made of.
This universe sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this universe · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 8 works carry a tone
Every work, three ways to look at it.
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