Liselle Sambury

After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.

Blood Like Magic

Jasper

Her words are like a noose tightening around my neck. A promise of pain. It's the truth in them that stings.

'Names are tough.' He tucks his hands into his jeans pockets. 'You don't choose it. Someone else does, and it ends up defining your whole life. And when the name and who you are don't match, you have to spend time changing what people think when they look at you. Not just people who already know you, but everyone else too. How the whole world sees you. You know?'

Everyone is moving toward something, and I'm floundering.

Stamped on my back is a piece that represents my my culture and family. Drawn by a boy who I'm supposed to kill in their name.

What must it be like to know exactly what you want? Whenever I try to imagine my future, I come up against a block.

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