The following December, Cate will have to choose between marrying, or joining the Sisterhood, a group of devout ladies who assist the poor. If the current government, the gender-discriminating Brothers find out, the siblings will be in terrible peril. All of the siblings are witches, capable of committing evils easily, without a second thought. On top of that, Cate has to keep a dark secret. She has also been burdened with the task of caring for her younger sisters, Tess and Maura, after her mom died. The protagonist, Cate Cahill, struggles to survive in a world filled with gender discrimination, poverty, and corrupt governments. This story, set back in the late 1800s, is a provoking novel that illustrates real world problems and faces them. In Born Wicked, author Jessica Spotswood set up a world that was brimming with all those problems. Everyday, we face problems like discrimination and corrupt governments. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood - not even from each other. If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren't safe. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra. especially after she finds her mother's diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family's destruction. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word.

And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship - or an early grave.īefore her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. Blessed with a gift.cursed with a secret.Įverybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric.

Sisters' Fate by Jessica Spotswood