the Coonkin Chronicles Adventures of Twitch Witch

The Heroes of Ardenmyst - Part One of Four Series Overview: >Her home would become known as The Academy of High Magical Arts, and here is where the Coonkin would practice and hone their skills. Innovation would lead to industry, and they established the Engineering Corps, a division of The Academy which would focus on infusing magic into machinery, as a clean replacement for burning coal. This technology would become a bartering tool to build relations with the Humans. Now, generations later, some Humans still do not honor the treaties, and some Coonkin have rejected the Spirit's mission. Amidst these tensions, a darkness looms, threatening both Human and Coonkin alike. These chronicles follow the journeys of three unassuming heroes, called by the Spirit to rise against this threat, and save the land they all call home...if they can. Part One Overview: Twitch lives alone deep within the heart of Ravenwood Forest, and not by accident, either. After failing to learn how to control her magic, with almost tragic consequences, and being expelled from The Academy of High Magical Arts, she chose a life of solitude, where she couldn't hurt anybody. But, her world gets turned upside down one night, when a hoard of risen undead attack her cottage, and a mysterious magic orb falls into her possession from the sky. She embarks on a journey of both discovery and survival as she seeks to uncover who, or what, is behind the attack.Along the way, she meets a member of a very reclusive race of spiders called the Arachidna, often rumored to be mere hallucinations, flashes of color seen from the corner of the eye. Twitch comes to discover that the threat to Ardenmyst is larger than just her cottage, as she learns of an evil mind-controlling corruption that is afflicting both the Arachidna, and the race of man-eating black widows that plague the only trail through the dangerous Grimshade Forest.Can Twitch free the Arachidna from the corruption, and can Fidget keep her safe as they ride into battle (for what will only be the first time) against the same black widows who slaughtered his family?