Early nineteenth-century witch Herculine leaves her violent life in France for an uncertain future in America, where she enters into an erotic and desperate relationship with a beautiful slave and searches for her missing teacher, Sebastiana.
James Reese Libri
James Reese crea narrazioni avvincenti, immergendo i lettori in mondi ricchi di intrighi e colpi di scena inaspettati. La sua scrittura si distingue per acute osservazioni sulla natura umana e una magistrale evocazione dell'atmosfera. Reese approfondisce temi di complessità morale e i limiti della resistenza, spingendo alla riflessione su aspetti fondamentali della vita. La sua capacità di creare suspense e la sua perspicace esplorazione della psicologia dei personaggi gli sono valse il plauso dei lettori che cercano esperienze letterarie intelligenti e accattivanti.
Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, this novel intertwines historical figures like Bram Stoker, Walt Whitman, and Jack the Ripper within a thrilling narrative. The author skillfully blends fact and speculation, creating a gripping suspense story that captivates from the very first chapter. Renowned author Michael Connelly praises it as a mesmerizing thriller, highlighting its remarkable literary invention and relentless pace.
The Book of Shadows
- 623pagine
- 22 ore di lettura
Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful, mysterious Sebastiana. Swept away to the witch's manor, Herculine will enter a fantastic, erotic world to discover her true nature -- and her destiny -- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual first novel.