The Curse

You know how high school is supposed to be fun? Okay, so freshman year isn’t really fun. That is the year the seniors haze you by selling tickets to the elevator, so you don’t have to take the stairs. Or my personal favorite- access to the swimming pool on the roof that doesn’t exist.

It’s really when you hit the junior and senior years the fun is supposed to begin. At least that is what I’d seen in all the movies. I believed it would be the same for me. After all, I was going to be with my best friend, Everleigh. We could face anything as long as we were together; even buying tickets to a pool that doesn’t exist and a pass to take the elevator to get there.

No one told me about curses and what would happen if I kissed my longtime crush. Such things didn’t exist in the movies I watched.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back, back to when I believed anything was possible as long as I had Everleigh at my side. Back to when I was alive.

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About the Author

Shannon Simpson

As a child, I wanted to be a teacher. I realized around the beginning of my teenage years I didn't have the temperament to be a teacher.

My first vampire book was Forever and the Night by Linda Lael Miller. I loved it! Over time I read every vampire book I could. A few years back a dear friend recommended Twilight. Just because I'm older doesn't mean I can’t dive into a YA novel ever now and then. I'd seen the movie but didn't know it was based on a book. The thrift store I worked at got in one of the mass market copies of Twilight with the movie cover. I took it as a sign. I read it and was hooked. Thankfully it was after all the books had been released. Patience isn't one of my virtues. I loved them! That was the only copy of that particular edition of Twilight to be donated during the time I was at that job.

Witches have always appealed to me. I can't say what it is about them, the powers, or the spells; maybe it's the flying. Whatever the reason I decided to give a short story about witches a try. Nothing overly complicated. It was a little fantasy about an ordinary girl hiding the fact she was a witch and the boy next door. I loved writing it. I took a chance and combined my love of vampires and witches and suddenly the Spellbound Saga was born.

This journey has barely begun, but I can't wait to see where it goes. I hope you'll come along for the ride.

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The Curse Reviews

Another great book by Shannon Simpson! Was excited to receive my book and read it in two nights!! As the book progresses you feel bad for Shy, you want to slap “The Bitches,” and constantly root for Shy to take them down!! Can’t wait to see what happens with Shy, Wyatt and Nate next! – Reviewed by Christy Foster via Amazon

 

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