Bestselling author Madeline Martin on St. Augustine, writing and black cats

Readers might not know it from her romance novels set in Scotland or her historical fiction set against the backdrop of the London Blitz. But bestselling author Madeline Martin is also someone who you may run into walking down St. George Street in St. Augustine. The St. Augustine resident is nearing the end of a months-long book tour that has taken her from Florida to the U.K. to promote her latest novel, A Time of Witches.  Martin says the book has it all if you’re looking for your next fall read: black cats, witches and a little bit of magic. Here’s Martin’s pitch: A Time of Witches follows “two women, 400 years apart, one who s trying to survive the witch trials in England in 1645, one who has been having a recurring dream of being burned alive at the stake that leads her to an abandoned manor in England, where she has to save her ancestor from that fate or all will be lost.” A Time of Witches is Martin’s 43rd novel. Before she was a prolific writer, though, Martin was