Title:  Smoke on the Water
Series:  Sisters of the Craft #3
Author:  Lori Handeland
Genre:  Paranormal Romance
Published:  August 4, 2015
Publisher:  St. Martin’s Press
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

Abandoned beneath a black willow tree on the banks of a northern Wisconsin creek, Willow Black spent her entire childhood in foster care. Her entire life she’s had terrifying visions, and it is these visions that eventually land her in a psychiatric facility. And so Willow takes her meds and believes she is getting better. Until she meets a fellow patient who doesn’t think she is crazy at all. She thinks Willow is a witch.

Willow’s psychiatrist, Dr. Sebastian Crane, works hard to resist his feeling that he and Willow are destined to be together while also working to convince her that strange occurrences aren’t the result of witchcraft… until he is thrown into the middle of a storm of supernatural events that can’t be explained any other way.

Reunited after four hundred years, three sisters join together to vanquish the power that tore them apart…and embrace the sorcery that is their birthright.

Abandoned as an infant, Willow Black spent her childhood in foster care, the object of whispers and pity…and rumors about being certifiably crazy. Telling your young friends that you can foresee the future-and summon the rain-is a surefire way to end up in the psychiatric ward. But when Dr. Sebastian Frasier arrives at the facility, Willow’s whole life takes a turn. Sebastian is the handsomest man she’s ever actually laid eyes on-even though he has been in Willow’s visions for years. But not even she could have predicted the storm of passion that engulfs them both. With Sebastian by her side, Willow is emboldened to embrace her history, and the sisters she never knew. Soon, the true power in her blood awakes-and the battle she was born to fight begins. While the tempest rages, Willow must depend on the friends and family she’s found-and the man she has loved forever.

Read on for my thoughts on Smoke on the Water.  No true spoilers, promise.

Smoke on the Water concludes the Sisters of the Craft in an extremely satisfying way.  Willow has seen visions her entire life.  Found abandoned and placed into the foster care system, Willow has never had a safe or secure home.  She was passed from foster home to foster home and then into a mental institution.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with Willow.  She knows this on a level that the doctors with all of their medical knowledge cannot accept.  Yet for most of her life she has found no other reason for the visions that terrify her or foretell the future.  When she finally comes to the realization that she is not crazy, but she is indeed a witch life takes another turn for Willow.

Sebastian knows science and medicine.  He has no time nor belief in magic or witchcraft or visions.  There is a medical logical reason for what Willow is experiencing and he will do everything in his power to help her.  It doesn’t help that he feels a connection with Willow on a totally non-doctor level. Sebastian is a man of science, and he will have a very difficult time in accepting Willow’s powers.  But if he is to be with Willow as a man he will need to accept what is happening around them as fact, and accept all that Willow is in order to help her and keep her in his life.

Since this is the concluding novel in the series it would be unfair of me to give away much more.  It was amazing to see the true power of the three sisters together.  We are given a powerful battle with evil, the reunion of family thought long lost and happy ever afters for everyone involved.

Smoke on the Water was an intriguing, captivating story.  One that while it did cover ground from the previous novels, still manages to keep you reading and cheering the characters on as they fight true evil.  It was charming and frustrating to watch Sebastian come to accept what Willow and her sisters truly are.  Men of science can be so sexy and so unaware of anything beyond their tunnel vision of what is and what cannot be.  It was fun to see him need to face magic and accept it as fact.

If you enjoy paranormal romance, this is a series that will grab your attention and hold it until the very end.  Sisters of the Craft is a series with a bit of everything paranormal romance readers enjoy, and with a most satisfying ending that you might not have seen coming.  I would highly recommend this series.

*I received an e-ARC of Smoke on the Water from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

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