Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery-aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches-finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.ĭemonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches-a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.
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