But everyone is charmed by how annoying he is and he has a great future ahead of him, unless he dies. Scott is an aspiring director and kind of an annoying guy, to be honest. well, who knows?Īnyway, it all comes down to whether or not Julia will risk her life to save Scott. And, she also discovers that there’s a coven of witches searching for Julia because …. Julia goes for the latter but then Amy discovers that the robber has a weird, kind of out-of-nowhere connection to a girl who was previously healed by Julia’s mother. Julia can either heal him or she can buy a gun (?), use her abilities to see the future, and go all vigilante in an attempt to take out the robber who shot Scott. Scott is in a coma and is going to die unless he gets some supernatural healing. It seems like the simple solution would be to just not heal anyone.īut then her friend Scott gets shot during a convenience store robbery.

That’s what happened to Julia’s mother and Julia’s determined not to let the same thing happen to her. So, if she heals someone who is on the verge of death, that means that she’ll be the one who dies. She has the power to see the future and to heal people, with the only problem being that, when she heals them, she takes their illnesses and injuries into her own body. First published in 1990, Christopher Pike’s extremely weird YA novel Witch tells the story of Julia Florence and her friend Amy.īasically, Julia is the latest in a long line of witches.

Witch by Christopher Pike