
So why doesn't she already have a familiar? Because, you know, witches aren't 'given' familiars, they choose their own, one they can count on as their allies and will do their bidding, but apparently she didn't know this and just accepted Oscar right away. And, of course, she's extremely powerful. She seems to hate the fact that she's not 'normal' but can't help using her powers. While I understand that in paranormal books you need to suspend belief, because they don't follow the rule 'if it doesn't happen in real life, it shouldn't happen in a book,' this one, I felt, was over the top.First, Lily is a witch but tries to hide it from everyone, and would instead rather feel sorry for herself.repeatedly. But will Lily be able to retrieve her before she is lost forever?.This is the first book in a series, written several years ago, but I haven't had the chance to explore it until now.and it wasn't a huge loss. It is the murmured words of "La llorona" that makes her understand where the child has gone.

Potts when they arrived has been taken by a child snatcher. When she and Maya go to investigate, they find that the little girl who was visiting with Mrs.

Potts heard the wail, yet the three women heard the scream. Potts' photo while she's wearing the dress, she realizes it must have been worn the day her daughter was taken from her.But before she leaves the property, she hears an unearthly wail and a child's scream yet only she and Mrs. Potts, Lily likes her, but discovers that the woman had a daughter who died young, and when Lily handles a dress it is filled with extreme grief. Then her part-time employee Maya takes her to see a woman who has tons of vintage clothing she's willing to part with.Once meeting Mrs. While she protests and tells him to take it back, that she doesn't want it, especially since Aidan also tells her that he knows her father - which to her is bad news of the first degree.When it appears she's stuck with the thing who transforms himself into a pot-bellied pig, she named it Oscar. He tells her that he's a male witch named Aidan (hating the term warlock), and shows her a small creature that resembles something between a troll and a gargoyle, and he tells her that it's her new familiar. She wants to live among the people in San Francisco, far from her Texas upbringing (doesn't sound much like a Texan to me, whom tend to be proud they are from the Lone Star State, and probably wouldn't be caught dead by someone mistaking them for a Californian, but I digress.)Anyway, she's minding her own business when an attractive man enters the store and announces he has something for her.

Lily Ivory is a witch who really doesn't want to embrace her "witchy" side.
