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    Love's Spell
    Love's Spell
    Love's Spell
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    Love's Spell

    By Q. Kelly

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    Ava Van Dorn doesn’t believe in magic, but she believes in possibilities. So, she figures trying a love spell her grandmother left her won’t hurt. Worst case: her life will stay the same. Best case: her fellow second-grade teacher James Friedlander will fall in love with her, and they’ll live happily ever after.

    Except...oops!

    Ava accidentally places the spell on her principal, Libby Lubbock. Libby is wrestling with her own issues in the love department, namely the fact that she’s deciding whether to give her ex a second chance after the ex cheated. Libby is beginning to think she’s the type who is better off single.

    The spell can be undone, but it requires Ava and Libby getting to know each other better. Lots better. Libby agrees to the undo because no way does she want to fall in love with Ava if she can help it. However, perhaps the last paragraph in a letter Ava's grandmother wrote is right: “Why all these crazy steps? My great-great grandmother, the witch, strongly believed that things happen for a reason. This time with the ‘wrong person’ will help determine if the wrong person might be the right person, after all.”

    Can Libby and Ava cast a love spell that has nothing to do with abracadabra magic and everything to do with the magic of true love?

    *** This novella is 24,000 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQ. Kelly
    Release dateNov 8, 2012
    ISBN9781301139859
    Love's Spell
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    Q. Kelly

    I live in Washington state, where I am a writer and an editor. I also have a master's degree in deaf education. In my free time, I hike and savor frappuccinos.Fact One: I like corny jokes. If you have any good ones, send them my way!Fact Two: My favorite color is purple, but my writing is gray. Life is not black and white. I often write about issues and characters where there is no "right" answer.Fact Three: I'm weird. I like being weird.Email me at yllek_q@yahoo.com. I'd love to hear from you.Check out my blogs at qkelly.wordpress.com and qkelly.blogspot.com.

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    Love's Spell - Q. Kelly

    LOVE’S SPELL

    By Q. Kelly

    Love’s Spell

    Copyright © 2012 by Q. Kelly

    Cover image copyright © Hasloo Group Production Studio via Shutterstock

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    This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead or actual events is coincidental. No part of this book may be reproduced without the permission of the author.

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    LOVE’S SPELL

    Blurb: Ava Van Dorn doesn’t believe in magic, but she believes in possibilities. So, she figures trying a love spell her grandmother left her won’t hurt. Worst case: her life will stay the same. Best case: her fellow second-grade teacher James Friedlander will fall in love with her, and they’ll live happily ever after.

    Except…oops!

    Ava accidentally places the spell on her principal, Libby Lubbock. Libby is wrestling with her own issues in the love department, namely the fact that she’s deciding whether to give her ex a second chance after the ex cheated. Libby is beginning to think she’s the type who is better off single.

    The spell can be undone, but it requires Ava and Libby getting to know each other better. Lots better. Libby agrees to the undo because no way does she want to fall in love with Ava if she can help it. However, perhaps the last paragraph in a letter Ava’s grandmother wrote is right: Why all these crazy steps? My great-great grandmother, the witch, strongly believed that things happen for a reason. This time with the ‘wrong person’ will help determine if the wrong person might be the right person, after all.

    Can Libby and Ava cast a love spell that has nothing to do with abracadabra magic and everything to do with the magic of true love?

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    I dedicate this novella to my wife, Melanie, to our cats, Dopey and Flirt, and to our dog, Chester. Dopey died during the writing of this novella, which is ironic in a way because the character of Mrs. Purr was already in full force as a combination of Dopey and Flirt. In Mrs. Purr, part of Dopey will always live on. Part of Flirt, too. I don’t believe in abracadabra magic, but there is no denying that after Dopey died, Flirt (who is a year younger than Dopey) started taking on many of Dopey’s behaviors—behaviors Flirt had never done. Who knows, maybe magic does exist.

    Thank you to all my readers. I mean everyone, including the people who have bought my books and the people who take the time to review them and/or email me. I owe a special debt of gratitude to my editorial readers as well as my beta readers. They include my wife and then (in no particular order!) Dar, Nicki Wachner, Lee Fitzsimmons and Linda S. North.

    I also owe a bunch of thanks to Leigh Ann Britt, who has always been there for last-minute cover jams. She’s helped me out of quite a few tight spots! Thank you, Leigh.

    CONTENTS

    Blurb

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter Eleven

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    CHAPTER ONE—AVA’S TURN

    I didn’t believe in magic, especially the type of magic necessitating a mixture of eye of newt, sheep gut, thistles of grass, slime of toad, wart of wench, that gross stuff. Yet here I was, about to try a magic spell. Why the heck not? The spell wasn’t nasty, and trying never hurt. Besides, I did believe in hope. In possibilities.

    Worst case: my life would stay the same. Best case: James Friedlander would fall in love with me, and we’d live happily ever after.

    Wish me luck, Grandma, I muttered, lifting my gaze to the ceiling. My grandmother, Harriet Bynes, died last year and left me the spell. She wouldn’t have done that if she believed the spell was bogus.

    Alas, Grandma did not beam benevolently at me from above. A brownish water spot did. It welcomed me when I started at Leviston Elementary three years ago. You’d think someone would’ve gotten rid of it by now, but no. Instead, the spot had expanded in all directions and acquired a certain level of blobness. I called it Bob. You know, Bob the Blob. Blobby Bob.

    I pasted on a smile and peeked into James’s classroom. He sat at his desk—probably marking papers. Hey, I called.

    James looked up and flashed his trademark dimpled smile. Hey! Normally, his smile and his voice caused my knees to go weak. Not now. Not when anxiety threatened to shut my stomach down. Escaping into my own classroom, next to James’s, would be easy. Too easy. A coward’s way out. Students had gone home fifteen minutes ago, and the time to cast the spell was now or never. I willed my jumbling nerves to straighten, but they rocked and knotted more. In a way, I enjoyed the sensation—the feel of a giddy adventure to come.

    What’s up? James asked, and I stepped into the classroom. James and I were Leviston Elementary School’s second-grade teachers. He was incredible with kids, the best teacher I had met—better than even myself. It took me a while to get used to a man teaching such young kids, but no creepy aura surrounded James. His wife died a few years ago, and emotion still choked James’s voice when he talked about her. He was a man who would treat the woman he loved right.

    Plus, the guy defined drop-dead gorgeous. Sandy blond hair, twinkling green eyes, a smooth, white smile showcasing dimples. Gym workouts and running kept his thirty-five-year-old body hot and humming. I’d treated him to dinner and a movie twice last school year. Not dates. Not technically. They couldn’t be because I suggested them, paid for everything and got nary a kiss for my efforts. Yeah, sue me. I’m old-fashioned. I like someone to woo me, to court me, to pay for me.

    No wooing occurred. I didn’t interest James—apparently.

    Just checking up, I said. You know. The email. You doing okay?

    James rolled his eyes. I refuse to let Louise Avery get to me. We met for one minute last week. One! If she wants to base that kind of decision on such a short meeting, that’s her loss.

    Good for you. It really is her loss. Harley’s, rather. School policy dictated placing twins in separate classrooms, but earlier that day, Mrs. Louise Avery, mother of Haley and Harley, had shot off an email to James, me and our principal, Libby Lubbock: I’m uncomfortable with a man teaching my seven-year-old daughter. Let’s talk about placing Harley with Haley.

    I have a surprise, I said. Hope it cheers you up.

    James beamed. You’re the best.

    Now for the spell. It was quite simple. All I had to do at this point was recite the words: I want this person to fall in love with me, o gods, please have this person fall in love with me forever and ever. I

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