Ancient Ways : Patti Larsen Books : 9781988700236 : 198870023X : 09 Jun 2017 : Under Attack! Syd! I knew that voice, the power behind it. Not an attack. I pulled back just in time, only a heartbeat before I blew Mia's mind into a gazillion fragments. Help me Syd please help they're taking it and I can't stop them and I don't know what to do please help they're dying-- A single image made it through, from Mia's perspective, a slow tumble to the right as she fell onto polished marble stairs, dark shapes looming over her before she slipped away from me. With one last whisper. Please help-- Syd's second year at Harvard is over, but her troubles are only just beginning. Liam's cling-on mother, Sonja, is making it impossible for them to even consider a relationship, and Syd has to confess she wonders if they have a future. But all thoughts of love and romance vanish when the Dumont coven power is stolen, her friend Mia left helpless. Syd's mother, Council Leader Miriam Hayle, refuses to act