Synopses & Reviews
"SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rice's title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature--is fascinating."
--The Miami Herald
"BEHIND ALL THE VELVET DRAPES AND GOSSAMER WINDING SHEETS, THIS IS AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY SAGA....Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight."
--The Washington Post Book World
"RICE SEES THINGS ON A GRAND SCALE...There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other."
--The Boston Globe
"EROTIC...EERIE...HORRIFYING...A tight tale of the occult in present-day New Orleans...Anne Rice is a spellbinding novelist.... LASHER quenches."
--Denver Post
A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD(c)
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Witches Trilogy--the inspiration for AMC's hit series Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches " Anne] Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight."--The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first "witch," Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjured up the spirit she named Lasher--a creation that spelled her own destruction and torments each of her descendants. Now, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from this darkly brutal yet irresistible demon.
The magic of the Mayfairs continues:
THE WITCHING HOUR - LASHER - TALTOS
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles--the inspiration for the hit television series " Anne] Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight."--The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first "witch," Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjured up the spirit she named Lasher--a creation that spelled her own destruction and torments each of her descendants. Now, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from this darkly brutal yet irresistible demon.
The magic of the Mayfairs continues:
THE WITCHING HOUR - LASHER - TALTOS