The Book of Spirits » (Reprint)

James Reese is the author of The Witchery, The Book of Spirits, and The Book of Shadows. He lives in South Florida and Paris, France.

September, 1826. The witch Herculine stands on the deck of a ship bound for Virginia, leaving behind a strange and violent childhood in France for an uncertain future in an unknown land. Then a chance encounter changes everything. A beautiful slave awakens passions—as well as dark, otherworldly powers—within the confused Herculine. Soon both are spellbound, caught in an erotic and desperate relationship from which only Herculine's teacher, the missing witch Sebastiana d'Azur, can rescue her.

Herculine flees to New York hoping to find Sebastiana, but there she is distracted by the city's chaos and her own carnal education. Her mission far from finished, Herculine renews her quest, and returs south in search of her beloved, her true self, and, ultimately, her salvation.

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