Part of my job included feeding and cleaning up after the animals. The nature center where I worked kept a bull snake, painted turtle, and Woodhouse’s toad on display for educational purposes. The interest comes from my time working as a naturalist at a state park in Colorado. Toad skin isn’t something I’m particularly fond of on its own, but I do have an affinity for frogs and toads and reptiles in general. Unlike other stories I’ve written, The Vine Witch ended up being a repository for some favorite, quirky expertise I’ve been carrying around in my head for years. Or perhaps, too, in the mind of a writer. Toad skins, a sprig of dried rosemary, a glass of full-bodied red wine-only in my witch’s world would these three things go together. And she won’t rest until she can defy the evil powers that are still a threat to herself, Jean-Paul, and the ancient vine-witch legacy in the rolling hills of the Chanceaux Valley. To stay on and help the vines recover, she’ll have to hide her true identity, along with her plans for revenge against whoever stole seven winters of her life. But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them. Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches.
And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.
Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life.
Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Here’s the publisher’s description:Ī young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy set in turn-of-the-century France.įor centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Smith is joining us today with her novel The Vine Witch.
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