This is a retail sample of The Hawthorne Witch by A.L. Hawke available after June 7, 2023 in all retailers. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2020; Audio production copyright 2023.

Sometimes I'd rather shield my eyes than see darkness in light.

It was my senior year at Hawthorne University when everything fell apart. I mean, all my witch friends got along fine—sort of. But I was nervous about my love life. I just had to get into Hawthorne’s graduate program, because my boyfriend was going to be a professor. I didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t want to lose anyone.

And things got weirder. A witch was threatened with sacrificial murder. Another witch spent all day murmuring to herself, in the center of a circle of candles, on a pentagram she painted in her dorm room. It all pointed to the wicked witch of the Abaddon coven. If I was right, it might just take a full-fledged witch showdown to stop her.

So? Bring it on. What did I have to lose? Just everyone I love. And maybe my soul.

The Hawthorne Witch is Book 3 in the Hawthorne University Witch Series. The books in this series are complete self-contained novels not ending in cliffhangers. Some spoilers cannot be avoided, but this is a stand-alone novel that can be enjoyed without listening to the other books in the series.

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This is a retail sample of Beltane Fire by A.L. Hawke available after July 17, 2023 in all retailers. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2022; Audio production copyright 2023.

It was my freshman year when my best friend introduced me to the spring festival in Hawthorne University. I was studying for finals, but she said everyone, absolutely everyone, goes to Beltane. Because Hawthorne is weird.

Men in red paint jumped flames. Ladies in white dresses with lovely flower garlands awaited the May Queen. But none of that interested me—until I decorated a tree with a super cute guy. We danced around the tree and had so much fun.

But then I saw fire. And within the flames were disturbing images. Even with the spark between me and my new stranger, it had to end. I think that was the day my witchcraft began—you know, the fire that burns in my heart and soul.

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This is a retail sample of Alondra by A.L. Hawke available after October 20, 2023 in all retailers. Narrated and performed by Preston Geer & Alexa Elmy. Produced by Zach Grappone. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2022; Audio production copyright 2023.

I fell in love with a goth, but she’s a witch. 

Starting school at Hawthorne University was not going well, until I met my classmate Alondra. Allie was different. She was goth. But she was also mysterious, confident and fun. I was into that. My name’s Liam. My friends call me Lee.

Things got weird after I accompanied her to her haunts. Poltergeists and demons attacked little girls. I watched Alondra help exorcise these ghosts, but some of their evil stuck to me.

Well, being attracted to a witch was one thing; dating one was quite another. It seemed the closer I got to Allie, the more her witchcraft endangered my friends. And my soul. You decide. I chronicled everything here in her book.

Alondra is a prequel to the internationally bestselling Hawthorne University Witch series. The novel takes place twenty years before Broomstick.

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This is a retail sample of Samhain Witch by A.L. Hawke available after November 16, 2023. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2023; Audio production copyright 2023.

I absolutely adore Halloween. I love the vibrant fall colors and the fun and revelry. And Samhain (Sa-win) is a major holiday for witches because it represents our new year. It’s the time when the spirit world meets the living.

So I wanted to throw a Halloween party for my students at Hawthorne University. Since the Billington frat house wasn’t available, I planned a party at my place. But as Maddie sat smiling in our circle, planning pumpkin carvings and costume contests, a visitor from my teacher’s past appeared, in tears, beside our bonfire. She said she had been terrorized by a haunted house, and she was looking for the Hawthorne Witch.

And as I discovered more about her haunting, I found that, this time, I was up against more than witches competing for my power or blaspheming with left-sided magic. This was a primal evil. I had met the Samhain Witch.

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This is a retail sample of Witch Mirror by A.L. Hawke available after April 3, 2024. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2024; Audio production copyright 2024.

Bryce and I are trying to revive Alondra’s old metaphysical history class. We’re in college again, this time teaching. But It’s stressful under our former teacher’s shadow. Not only that, there’s a new demon-witch messing with my love life. So I’m going through that again. Well, at least this time I have Alondra’s magic to protect me.

Actually, not only do I have her magic, her spirit is inside me, possessing me. But don’t worry, Alondra’s ghost is a positive force here to help Hawthorne. I mean…are you good, Alondra?

A witch council is gathering at my house to reflect on ways to save us. They’re convinced Alondra is evil, but Alondra and I are unsure they know what they’re doing. Well, if I can’t hold things together—inside and outside of myself—I fear my plans of finishing graduate school at Hawthorne U. and starting a family are going to shatter.

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This is a retail sample of Ravens by A.L. Hawke available after April 24, 2024. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2024; Audio production copyright 2024.

While Bryce and I are finally enjoying some quiet time together, a dark, shadowy figure crashes into our door. And it isn’t a small black bird this time. A devil is hurt, asking for my help.

Well, I just have too many problems of my own now. People don’t want to talk to me. And Bryce isn’t touching me. So what’s a witch to do? Haul up my legs, sit on a pentagram in a circle of candles, and murmur to myself.

My best friend Maddie thinks I’m under a curse. But, honestly, I feel like I have to do whatever it takes to save this town, even if it means teaming up with my archenemy witch Enora.

Evil empowers me. But this dark spellcasting also intends to drive a stake right through my heart and the heart of Hawthorne University. See, not only am I feeling alone, I’m getting expelled.

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This is a retail sample of Shadow Cast by A.L. Hawke available after July 16, 2024. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2024; Audio production copyright 2024.

It's the start of my second year of graduate school at Hawthorne University. (I wasn't canned, okay?) Bryce and our dean organize an orientation meeting to recruit witches. Yep, it's time to teach Alondra's "honors" program.

Everything goes fine until that slithery snake-witch, Adder, barges into my home. She claims I'm cursing her master, Enora, haunting the dreams of her Abaddon coven. I'm not. Honest. But sometimes Alondra pops up inside me, acting outside of my control.

We hold a séance to ask the ghost possessing me to go away. I don’t see ghosts or spirits. I see evil. But you know, it’s funny, no one else seems to.

My sole mastery of necromancy might just be enough to protect Bryce and my unborn baby—or save my greatest adversary.

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This is a retail sample of Candy Crone by A.L. Hawke available after November 1, 2024. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2024; Audio production copyright 2024.

Candy Crone is a Christmas Short Story standalone novella, Book 6.5, in the Hawthorne University Witch Series.

While I’m enjoying a spicy caramel apple surprise at our local ice cream parlor, an old lady in rags rambles nonsense about candy canes to children waiting for Santa. That distracts me from prepping my young friend Cat for her college interview at Hawthorne University.

Christmas turns into creepy Halloween when all the local children, including Cat, disappear in the woods. Bryce and I search our forest but become spellbound. All this voracious casting heralds the arrival of a new witch in town. The Candy Crone.

As the Hawthorne Witch, I hold great power, but with my unborn baby kicking, the witch exploits my sins and vices through gluttony. Am I nothing more than my appetites and power as the Hawthorne Witch? Or can I accomplish something greater? If I can’t sort my stuff out, Cat, my unborn baby, Chandra, and all these innocent kids living in Hawthorne are toast.

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This is a retail sample of Princess Sojourn, a young adult coming of age greek mythology audiobook by A.L. Hawke, available after January 1, 2025. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2024; Audio production copyright 2025.

Audiobook summary:
The Greek gods have confined us to the isle of Azure Blue. That’s why this Olympiad makes all my amazon nymph sisters so excited when foreigners cross the sea to compete in the games. I’m excited.

Until I’m told I can’t compete. That puts me in such an awful mood that I escape the palace with my friends atop my winged unicorn. We journey through the forests under Mount Olympus. This sojourn risks our lives, halting the games. Well, I don’t learn my lesson. I defy my mother, the queen, once more in tournament.

While eventual triumph shields me from punishment, it doesn’t protect me from a terrible secret. A secret so terrible that I promise, I promise you, I will rebel again. Even if it means disobeying the gods themselves.

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This is a retail sample of Phantom Masquerade, a supernatural ghost romance audiobook by A.L. Hawke, available after January 21, 2025. Narrated and performed by Caitlin Kelly. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2025; Audio production copyright 2025.

Audiobook summary:
Mina Daaé dreams of performing on Broadway. Like her great ancestor, Christine Daaé, who sang at the prestigious Palais Garnier a hundred years before, Mina has the voice of an angel. But after graduating from Conservatoire de Paris, fortune fails her. Until the circus comes to town.

Mina’s close friend Toni Vollini offers her a role in his new Broadway play mixing Mozart with clowns. Known as The Harlequin, the musical is an inimitable adaptation of the opera Don Giovanni. Toni says Mina will soar, but with pathologic acrophobia, she’s afraid she’ll fall. And the ghost in her head says she will.

Toni and a ghost vie for her love, but Mina thinks her ghost is just another hallucination. Or is her ghost a phantom of the opera?

Phantom Masquerade is a contemporary adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera integrating romance and the paranormal.

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A.L. Hawke is the author of the internationally bestselling Hawthorne University Witch series. The author lives in Southern California torching the midnight candle over lovers against a backdrop of machines, nymphs, magic, spice and mayhem. A.L. Hawke writes fantasy and romance spanning four thousand years, from pre-civilization to contemporary and beyond.