Review: Spellbinding!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
Zoe works for a vet and is the current protector of the "Gateway", although at the time she has no clue. All she knows is that she wears a locket around her neck that has sentimental value to her. After her mother's death, her father sent her to be raised by her mothers siblings (a coven of Wiccans), out in the country in their farm house.  After work one night she notices something isn't right and sees she's about to be ambushed by one of Aries' "The God of War" puppets - Lucian.  She gets away from him only to be manhandled by another man, Evan, a templar and her protector.Protectors are sworn to keep the gateway to "humanities last hope" from falling into the wrong hands, and have been doing it for the last few centuries by keeping watch of Zoe's ancestors. Zoe should have learned all about this when she came of age, but her mother was killed before she had a chance to. Luckily for Evan, he is the one to have to tell her. He finds pleasure in telling her that he's been watching her since he was able to pick up a blade, guess you never know when you're being watched or not; this did not sit well with her!!  After Zoe and her dad walk into her apartment while it's being broken into, she and the assailant get into a scuffle and he takes her locket.Now that Lucian and Aries have the locket, they can't seem to get it to function properly... That is without Zoe...I really liked this story, also enjoyed seeing Zoe learn about her powers and how to use them. After she learns how to master them I'm sure she'd be a pretty bad-ass Wiccan... It had strong character building with a lot of back story.. She and Evan had an extremely heavy case of a Love/Hate relationship that all worked out in the end... The last few chapters of the book ended things really well so it had a nice closure.-Krystle