La Janara: a Christmas Tale Heartless

What will the predator do when the prey learns to hunt?Once, I was a nurse and I loved my job. Healing the sick and loving what was broken had always been my calling. But then Luca crashed into my life, destroyed it, and left me to pick up the pieces.I can’t let him get away with it. I’m willing to do anything to give him what he rightly deserves. Even if it means becoming something I had thought only existed in legends or folklore.I am a Janara, a witch, as it has been told for ages in Southern Italian folklore—and I’m as real as it gets.I don’t have time for love. I don’t have time for Alex—my first love, my first heartbreak, and the only one who can still cause me to falter. He chose the wrong time to come back to Italy.Shadows and secrets surround us. It can turn deadly. Especially when Luca decides it’s time to claim what he wants for himself. I welcome him to try.The Winter Solstice approaches and as my people meet under the walnut tree, I vow to make sure Luca is my guest of honor.Blood, bones, and witchcraft—that’s all I need to write my story