Bad Witch series

## Genre Information

Urban Fantasy
Witches and Wizards

Paranormal Romance

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## About the Series

* **Genres:** Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Witches and Wizards
* **Theme:**
* **Narrative style**: First person narrative

## Description

Each book in the series has a different heroine and hero and they are each stand alones.

*freom Book 1*:
Wrongly accused of using her magic to harm, the closest Catherine Baker comes to helping others is serving their coffee. Life as an outcast is nothing new, thanks to her father's reputation, but the injustice stings. Especially since the man she loved turned her in. Now the man has the gall to show up and suggest she become the next Titania? She'd rather wipe that charming grin off his face with a pot of hot java to the groin.

Alexander Duquesne has never faltered in his duties as a guardian—until now. The lingering guilt over Cat's exile and the recent death of his best friend have shaken his dedication. With the murder of the old Titania, the faerie realm teeters on the brink of chaos. His new orders: keep Cat alive at all costs. Hunted by a powerful stranger intent on drawing her into an evil web, Cat reluctantly accepts Lex's protection and the resurrected desire that comes along with it. Lex faces the fight of his life to keep her safe...and win her back. If they both survive.

Warning: This book contains one tough and snarky witch, one gorgeous guardian, explicit blood drinking, magician sex, gratuitous violence against vampires and troublemaking Shakespearean faeries.

## Books in Series

### Bad Witch series

1. Blood, Smoke and Mirrors (Bad Witch Book 1) (2010)
2. Bloodlines and Broomsticks (Bad Witch Book 2) (2018)
3. Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered (Bad Witch Book 3) (2012)
4. Fire in the Blood (Bad Witch Book 4) (2012)
5. Bad Blood (Bad Witch Book 5) (2019)
6. Blood, Book and Candle (Bad Witch Book 6) (2019)

### Companion Series, Spinoffs, Sequels or Prequels

**Bad Witch: The Emily Chronicles**

* 0.5. The Importance of Being Emily (2011) eBook, 80 pages
* Poison in the Blood (The Emily Chronicles Book 1)(2013)

## World Building

### Supernatural Elements

Witches, vampires, faeries, elves, necromancer, magicians, alchemist, demons, tattoos, Faerie realm.

### World

In this world, which is set in an alternate Chicago, a thriving supernatural population of magicians (i.e., practitioners of various types of magic) exists unknown to mortals. The magicians are divided into factions depending on their magical characteristics and talents (e.g., faeries, necromancers, shape shifters, vampires, sorcerers, witches). The faeries live in their own separate Realm of Faerie, while the rest of the supernaturals live in the Realm of Earth alongside the mortals. One odd but interesting note: All of the faeries have Shakespearean names (e.g., Portia, Tybalt, Cecelia). Each magical group is governed by its own Council of Three.

### Protagonist

Catharine (Cat) Baker (Books 1 & 3)
The series heroine is Catharine (Cat) Baker, a Chicago witch who was unfairly banished four years ago by the Witches' Council when she used magic to defend herself against an unprovoked street attack. Cat has some faery ancestors on her mother's side, and her father is a necromancer. The Guardian who turned Cat in and arrested her was her longtime boyfriend, Alexander (Lex) Duquesne, and as you can probably guess, their romance ended at that exact point in time.
Riley O’Driscoll (Book 2)

Patience Roberts (Book 4)

Natividad Houlihan (Book 5)

Anne Williams (Book 6)

## Book Descriptions

1. Blood, Smoke and Mirrors (2010)
Wrongly accused of using her magic to harm, the closest Catherine Baker comes to helping others is serving their coffee. Life as an outcast is nothing new, thanks to her father's reputation, but the injustice stings. Especially since the man she loved turned her in. Now the man has the gall to show up and suggest she become the next Titania? She'd rather wipe that charming grin off his face with a pot of hot java to the groin. Alexander Duquesne has never faltered in his duties as a guardian—until now. The lingering guilt over Cat's exile and the recent death of his best friend have shaken his dedication. With the murder of the old Titania, the faerie realm teeters on the brink of chaos. His new orders: keep Cat alive at all costs. Hunted by a powerful stranger intent on drawing her into an evil web, Cat reluctantly accepts Lex's protection and the resurrected desire that comes along with it. Lex faces the fight of his life to keep her safe...and win her back. If they both survive.
**Warning**: *This book contains one tough and snarky witch, one gorgeous guardian, explicit blood drinking, magician sex, gratuitous violence against vampires and troublemaking Shakespearean faeries*.
2. Bloodlines and Broomsticks
*Liars and tigers and weres, oh my!*
Riley O’Driscoll’s perfect life cracked thanks to her nasty divorce, and then her world shattered when her beloved grandmother’s murder left her with a surprise inheritance of magic and mayhem. Riley has less than a year to learn a lifetime’s worth of witchcraft, and after a career of academic excellence Riley has only failed in two subjects: love and magic.
When witch hunters break down Riley’s door, a miscast spell sends her through the looking glass and into the path of sexy shapeshifter Jeremiah Galestrom. Jere was an agent of the Wild Hunt—an elite team of sorcerers sworn to protect magiciankind by hunting dangerous shapeshifters—who was infected and left for dead after his team was massacred. His faerie family saved his life, but his rescue left him trapped in Faerie with no hope of escape—until Riley arrives.
They strike a bargain that trades a year of Jeremiah’s protection for Riley’s help, and Riley finds herself with a new roommate who’s a real tiger. With the hunters closing in, can Riley trust her life—and her heart—with a man who is counting the days to his freedom? And while Jeremiah knows he can protect Riley from the hunters, can he protect her from himself, and the wild magic within him?
3. Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered (2012)
*It's better to be a bad witch than a dead one*.
One thing stands between Catherine Duquesne and happily-ever-after with her soul mate Lex—her unwanted bond with billionaire vampire Zachary Harrison. Married life is hard enough without adding an uninvited vampire to the mix, and being tied to Zach endangers more than just her relationship. If Zach dies, she dies, and with his new seat on the necromancer council being challenged by older, more powerful masters, his life expectancy is dwindling fast. Vampire politics is only the beginning of Cat's problems. Hunters are stalking magicians, abducting entire families and killing anyone who resists. As the current Titania and Oberon, Cat and Lex must protect their people, but Cat's dark past keeps the victims from seeking their help. Worse, the former Titania's granddaughter wants to oust Cat from the job, believing her vampire ties make her unfit. To break the bond Cat must broker deals with devils on a journey that will take her to hell and back - literally. Freedom comes at a high price, but Cat will risk anything to save her people and her marriage. Warning: This book contains explicit language, faerie shenanigans, a field trip to hell, even more magician sex, and gratuitous violence against vampires, demons, hunters, helicopters and the kitchen sink. And if you want to know how the very sexy Lex swept Cat off her feet, check out Blood, Smoke and Mirrors.
4. Fire in the Blood (2012)
*It’s good to be bad ...*
Patience Roberts is the last summoner standing between magiciankind and certain demon invasion. After banishing two or three demons a day for too long, gods know she’d like nothing better than a little down time with her number one distraction—Faust. But with vampires, hunters and assassins lined up to take her out, who has the time? Still, she has to admit her resistance to the amorous faerie is wearing thin. Not that she’ll ever let on—after all, faeries are notorious for their short romantic attention spans. — Faust, a Shadowspawn faerie, watched as his outcast clan dwindled to nothing. Determined to hold on to the woman he loves, he’ll do whatever it takes to protect Patience. And one day build a life with her. When an old demon enemy punches through the barrier between the worlds, Patience must draw on every ounce of her reputation as a cast-iron bitch to temporarily banish him. To get rid of him for good, she’ll have to sacrifice one too many pieces of her soul to leave room for love… —
**Product Warnings** - *Contains a hero and heroine so hot they’re literally on fire, naughty faerie sex, post-coital cuteness, angsty magician drama, and yet more gratuitous violence against vampires, demons, and innocent furniture*.
5. Bad Blood
*How do you convince a skeptic to reverse your curse?*
Natividad Houlihan travels the world searching for stunning historical sites with juicy secrets...and ghosts. Nati doesn't believe in the supernatural, but as a location scout for the Spirit Seekers paranormal investigation show she works for true believers. The team is thrilled at the opportunity to investigate an infamous Spanish haunted mansion--but the price of admission requires Nati to spend two weeks stumbling around in the dark searching for EVPs and light anomalies. Nati's only company is Cris, the estate's surly, sexy caretaker, who intrigues her during the day and stars in her vivid erotic fantasies at night.
Don Cristobal Mendoza loved unwisely and paid the price for his indiscretion, suffering a vicious curse that trapped him within the bounds of his ancestral estate. By day he is the manor's mysterious caretaker, and by night he is the shadow demon who stalks its halls. For centuries he has hidden his condition from the world as he despaired of ever being freed from his curse.
Nati is determined to unearth the secrets Cris has kept for centuries and bring his past to light, but Cris can't resist the chance to indulge his dark desires with a bold, beautiful American skeptic. As the balance of magical power shifts, they must work together to break the curse before Cris's time runs out.
6. Blood, Book and Candle
*A love worth dying for...twice?*
Anne Williams is a seer—the rarest, most dangerous kind of magician—gifted with the ability to divine the past, present and future. Anne spent her life hiding her true nature to protect her from those who would abuse her prophetic powers, but with an impending apocalypse on the horizon Anne can't afford to stay in the shadows. Anne steps up the plate to help magiciankind, but someone tries to take her out of the game—permanently.
Wounded and with nowhere else to go, Anne finds shelter with chronicler Simon St. Jerome, but with one touch he plunges Anne into a tangled web of secrets and lies. Simon spent centuries concealing his past while recording the history of magician society, but nothing can hide the truth from a seer. As his soul mate, Anne is determined to discover every secret he's buried—including the tale of how she died once before in a failed attempt to spend eternity with her immortal lover.
As danger closes in around them, Anne and Simon must overcome the scars of their pasts, or risk never seeing their futures.
## References

1. ↑ Fang-tastic Fiction: Robyn Bachar: BAD WITCH/CAT BAKER SERIES
2. ↑ Fang-tastic Fiction: Robyn Bachar: BAD WITCH/CAT BAKER SERIES