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Book 3 of Twelve
The Curse in the Cauldron
The Potion Competition goes cold and joyless. Team Trouble answers an old sorrow with warmth — and Trouble's shoulders hint at wings.
Different isn't wrong. Different is magical.
Early series — being expanded for publication. Date TBC.
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How spooky?
Mild
Gently spooky — funny first.
Right for
Ages 8–12
School Year 4+ · publisher-estimated reader age 8–12.
How long?
12 chapters
About 1,150 words a chapter — one bedtime each. 14,052 words in all.
What it's about
Belonging
Friendship, and being different on purpose.
- No gore
- Peril stays gentle
- Funny before frightening
- Friendship at the heart
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Who & where
Who you'll meet
Characters, creatures and places only.
The Great Hall — summer term energy (no spoilers).
Friends brewing side by side.
Sanctuary Archives
Whimkins in this book
2 of 8 awakeThe sleeping ones are waiting for a code from inside the printed book.
Trouble
Awake
Pippa
Awake
Venomina
Hasn't found its witch yet
Thornwig
Hasn't found its witch yet
Blink
Hasn't found its witch yet
Lord Warrington
Hasn't found its witch yet
Whisper moth
Hasn't found its witch yet
Mr Stinks
Hasn't found its witch yet