Maeve, The Pentagram Spell
Description
Love cannot be stolen. But it can be summoned, tested, and nearly destroyed.
Maeve was born under a storm, marked by an old bloodline and watched by forces her family refused to name. Beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous, she has learned that love is never given safely. It must be earned, controlled, or taken.
After the woman he loves asks for distance, Jesse leaves Scottsdale for Los Angeles, where a chance encounter at an Irish bar brings Maeve into his life. She is magnetic, unpredictable, and impossible to dismiss. But Maeve is not simply another woman. She is a witch working through the five points of an ancient spell: Air, Water, Earth, Fire, and Spirit.
Nicole, trying to reclaim herself from old mistakes, feels Jesse slipping away before she understands why. Dreams, symbols, and a red-haired woman she has never met begin pressing at the edges of her life. To save what remains between them, Nicole must choose truth, faith, and a love that cannot be forced.
As Maeve's spell tightens, Jesse becomes the vessel for something older than desire. One final night will test the difference between passion and possession, magic and faith, surrender and love.
Maeve, The Pentagram Spell is a supernatural romance about obsession, free will, and the terrifying power of love that refuses to be owned.
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Person
James Martin was born in the Southern United States to Spanish parents who had carried Europe with them across the Atlantic and set it down, more or less intact, in the middle of American soil. The result was a childhood conducted in two languages, two sensibilities, and the permanent mild disorientation of someone who belongs to more than one world and is therefore never entirely a stranger anywhere.
His early years were spent in motion. South America one year, Europe the next, always with the particular alertness of a child who has learned that places end and must therefore be paid attention to while they last. By the time he was an adult he had absorbed enough geography, enough culture, enough varieties of human behavior under pressure to supply a small library. He has been filling that library ever since.
His professional life defies the kind of summary that fits neatly on a page. He has worked in medicine, moving through the health and wellness field with the curiosity of someone who understands that the body and the story it tells about itself are never entirely separate subjects. He built and sold businesses. He shaped editorial vision in publishing. He navigated the collision between traditional media and the digital world at the exact moment that collision was most disorienting, and came out the other side with a clearer sense of what stories are actually for. Entrepreneur, publisher, practitioner, strategist. Each version of him was fully inhabited. None of them was the last one.
Which is to say that when James Martin describes a character who contains multitudes, who moves between worlds without quite belonging to any of them, who has learned through long experience to be fluent in more than one kind of knowing, he is not working from imagination alone.
He currently writes from the American West, where he resides, and which has the good sense to hold its contradictions without resolving them.
Maeve: The Pentagram Spell is his debut novel.
