**'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant'*Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes *

**'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant'*Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes *

**'[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic'*Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon *On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...

Demonstrating 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 incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.

A hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries, by the spellbinding, bestselling author of* The Vampire Chronicles *.