‘[A] large and sprawling story of horror.’ -The New York Times Publication Review

Demonstrating once more her present for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Grain makes real for us an excellent dynasty of four decades of witches-a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the age groups is definitely itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being known as Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.

Moving in period from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, through the espresso plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back again to today, Anne Grain offers spun a mesmerizing tale that issues everything we have confidence in.