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 Livres
James Reese élabore des récits captivants, plongeant les lecteurs dans des mondes riches en intrigues et en rebondissements inattendus. Son écriture se distingue par des observations perspicaces de la nature humaine et une évocation magistrale de l'atmosphère. Reese explore des thèmes de complexité morale et les limites de l'endurance, invitant à la contemplation des aspects fondamentaux de la vie. Sa capacité à créer du suspense et son exploration perspicace de la psychologie des personnages lui ont valu la reconnaissance des lecteurs à la recherche d'expériences littéraires intelligentes et captivantes.
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
- 623pages
- 22 heures de lecture
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.