The MacCollum Charisma

Charisma isn’t always a person’s magnetic or persuasive personality. Sometimes it’s an object that wields the same kind of compelling power.

And while the MacCollums of Kilwestra are a charming Scottish clan, their charisma is one of the second kind – a magical artifact that requires careful handling.

Created from one woman’s agony over the New Berwick witch trials in the 1590s, at least five other first daughters of her line died have of its curse.

Four more centuries of misuse and disdain couldn’t drain its energy. It would take two 21st-century witches, one on either side of the charisma’s ancestral power, to do that.