The Initiation, the first part in a series of works entitled The Secret Circle, is a young adult novel by author L. J. Smith.

She finds out that she's part of a coven of witches, and on top of that, the boy she's destined to be with is dating her best friend.

A chance encounter brings sixteen-year-old Cassie Blake to fall for the mysterious Adam Conant.

Faye Chamberlain, the voluptuous and dark puppet master, desires to turn Cassie into her plaything.

As the main protagonist of the novel, Cassie’s journey involves the sticky situation of falling in love with her best friend’s boyfriend.

She is described as having light-brown soft wavy hair with hidden colors woven through it, blue-silver eyes and a slight build.

She lives in a Georgian Postrevolutionary that belonged to her maternal grandparents Maeve Howard and her late husband at 12 Crowhaven Road, New Salem MA.

She has long black hair, honey gold eyes and overtly sensual mannerisms.

Her mother is a widow, her father Grant Chamberlain having died 16 years before the start of the story.

She had a crush on an outsider Jeffery Lovegood and on witch hunter Max Boylan who turned out to be using her.

As the embodiment of everything light and good in the world, Diana believes that magic should be harnessed for positive purposes.16 at the start of the series she turns 17 alongside Faye on November 10.

She has long, silky blonde hair that's described as moonlight and sunlight woven together, emerald green eyes and impossibly flawless skin.

She and Adam Conant were childhood sweethearts but later breakup due to Diana giving Cassie the Chalcedony Rose.

"[5] A member of The Juggler, in affiliation with the Pagan Newswire Collective, posted a review stating that The Initiation was 'fairly Pagan-positive and aware,' and that Smith "seems to get modern witches in a way that most authors do not.