The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is a fun meme hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice. Check out the rules below and click the Friday 56 button if you’d like to link up and join in.

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.
*It’s that simple.

My Friday 56 this week comes from a library book I’m hoping to start soon.

The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson

Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using their magic to keep the world in balance. But they are being eliminated—and we will all pay if their power falls…

When Lyse MacAllister’s great-aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her comfortable life in Georgia on hold to rush back to Los Angeles. And once she returns to Echo Park, Lyse discovers her great-aunt has been keeping secrets—extraordinary secrets—from her.

Not only is Lyse heir to Eleanora’s Victorian estate; she is also expected to take her great-aunt’s place in the Echo Park coven of witches. But to accept her destiny means to place herself in deadly peril—for the world of magic is under siege, and the battle the witches now fight may be their last…

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From page 56:

Even a house falls prey to age, Eleanora mused, her heart rate finally slowing down to normal as she enjoyed the feel of being static.

But static wasn’t in the cards.