They Called Us Wicked by Gloria Munoz

Four Witches Who Met Before They Met

They Called Us Wicked follows four young women who have been friends since childhood without ever sharing the same physical room. They found one another on an astral plane, forming a coven while each learned to hide her magical gifts from a world openly hostile to witchcraft.

Freshman Year Makes the Coven Real

Their first in-person meeting finally comes when all four enter the same prestigious university. The campus should offer a chance to turn an extraordinary long-distance bond into ordinary friendship, but secrecy still governs their lives under an anti-magic regime.

That contrast gives the story an irresistible center: they know one another intimately through magic yet must discover how to function together in public. College becomes both a long-awaited reunion and the first place where their hidden identities can endanger the whole group at once.

A Missing Roommate Opens the Wrong Door

When one girl’s unusual roommate disappears, the coven combines its powers to investigate. The search reveals a network of sinister secrets, expanding one campus mystery into something tied to the larger system that has taught them to conceal who they are.

They Called Us Wicked arrives October 6. It pairs witchy friendship with a mystery about institutional control, giving four “budding bruja besties” a reason to stop hiding and start pushing back together.