Synopses & Reviews
The Matrix meets
Interview with the Vampire in this sexy gothic thriller about two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the information thief who is drawn into their intrigues.
Season of the Witch tells the story of Gabriel Blackstone: hacker, information thief, and skilled remote viewer. Asked by a former lover to investigate the disappearance of her stepson, Gabriel's suspicions fall on Minnaloushe and Morrighan Monk, two beautiful sisters who live in a rambling Victorian house in London. Independently wealthy, the sisters spend their time dabbling in alchemy and the ancient Art of Memory invented by the Greeks and used by alchemists and magi such as Giordano Bruno and Leonardo Da Vinci. The sisters are white, or solar, witches, who aim to use alchemy not to turn lead into gold but to attain ultimate knowledge and therefore ultimate power. Gabriel soon becomes convinced that his client's son had been murdered and that one of the women is the killer. But which one?
As Gabriel infiltrates the world of the sisters, he finds himself drawn inexorably deeper becoming entranced even as he realizes that he is in mortal danger. When he is caught snooping, Gabriel must race to unlock their secrets before they can retaliate. To save himself and the one he loves, presuming she is not guilty Gabriel will have to fight one of the sisters within the landscape of her own mind.
Review
"Mostert's intriguing gothic thriller...renders suspense, an atmosphere fraught with eroticism, and compelling characters....Fans of Anne Rice and Joyce Carol Oates should appreciate Mostert's take on mysticism, magic, and the ancient art of memory." Booklist
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"Natasha Mostert has done something fine and rare....The twists and turns continue until the very last chapter, with Mostert using her delicate touch to keep the pace tight yet languorous. I didn't want it to end." BookReporter.com
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"Readers who enjoyed Dan Brown's mega-bestseller should find Season of the Witch...engrossing as well, especially since it is better written....Season of the Witch is an intelligently conceived, well-crafted, intricately plotted novel." Charlotte Observer
Synopsis
Gabriel Blackstone is an unscrupulous hacker and unrepentant "remote viewer" who can't resist his ex-lover's request to look into her stepson's disappearance. His investigation leads him to a rambling Victorian home that bewitches him-as do its beautiful, enigmatic owners, the Monk sisters. The pair are solar witches, obsessed with alchemy and the Art of Memory, a practice invented by the ancient Greeks.
With his uneasy suspicion that one of the sisters is a killer, Gabriel sets out to determine which. But the more entangled in the case he becomes, the more deeply he is drawn into the sisters' entrancing world-losing hold of reality even as he falls into mortal danger...
About the Author
Natasha Mostert is the author of three novels, The Midnight Side, The Other Side of Silence, and Windwalker. Educated in South Africa and at Columbia University in New York, her political opinion pieces have appeared on the op-ed pages of the New York Times and The Times of London.