But then, his “hope” is seeming pretty thin. But as you may expect, he’s still hoping to avoid killing her. Additionally, she’s been doing her best to off him from the start, along with anyone who gets in her way. First, she tried to kill Ethan’s best friend, Diver, and his fiancé. …You can probably see where this is headed.īut Charlotte Whitcomb is trying his patience. He doesn’t like to kill unless absolutely necessary, and won’t even consider it if the foe he happens to be facing is a woman. If you’ve read any of the rest of the Thieftaker books, you know that Ethan is a big softie. And while Ethan may have let her walk away in the previous two entries, he’s certainly learnt his lesson about being too lenient. As bounty hunters descend on Boston, Kaille must weed out those he cannot trust from those he would, even as a horde of unknown variables enter his city.Īgain, Ethan Kaille confronts Charlotte Whitcomb, with the life of Samuel Adams and the cause of liberty on the line. Unfortunately, he cannot trust them all to stand beside him. Luckily, he has friends and allies to assist him in this fight. But even though it fails to sway him, the bounty is sure to bring hunters from all around the colonies upon Boston. But even so, one hundred pounds is a princely sum, sure to even test his loyalties.

With these avenues now closed to her, the loyalist witch is now forced to her final gambit-an open bounty on Adams’ head.īy now Ethan Kaille is sworn entirely to the side of liberty. In the Cloud Prison, she moved her attention to his friends and kin. In the Loyalist Witch, Whitcomb targeted Kaille and Adams directly. Throughout the series Charlotte Whitcomb has had two primary goals: the death of Samuel Adams, and the dissolution of the Sons of Liberty.

If you’ve read the previous novellas in the trilogy, you’ll be aware that Whitcomb is a lot less bothered by right and wrong than Kaille, and so is willing to do anything and use anyone in pursuit of her aims. The conclusion to the Loyalist Witch finds former thieftaker, Ethan Kaille, once again pitting his magic against the Crown witch, Charlotte Whitcomb. Contains Spoilers for The Witch’s Storm and Cloud Prison (Loyalist Witch Parts 1-2) and minor spoilers for the Thieftaker series leading up to now.

Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson