La Hora de Las Brujas / The Witching Hour

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From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries. Anne Rice weaves a spellbinding narrative around a great dynasty of witches—a family steeped in poetry, incest, murder, and philosophy, haunted by a powerful and seductive being. The story opens in a faded New Orleans house where a mute woman sits rocking, signaling the beginning of an intricate tale. In present-day California, Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon with latent powers, rescues Michael Curry, a man who has briefly died and returned with mysterious sensory abilities. Their passionate connection drives them to uncover the mysteries of Rowan's lineage and Michael's unwelcome gift. The narrative shifts between modern New Orleans and San Francisco, and historical settings like Amsterdam and a château in Louis XIV's France. Evil emerges from seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first witch, Suzanne Mayfair, conjures the spirit Lasher, leading to her destruction and tormenting her descendants. The saga spans coffee plantations in Port au Prince, Civil War New Orleans, and the struggles of Julien, the clan's only male with occult powers. Throughout, themes of innocence versus corruption, sanity against madness, and life against death resonate, culminating in a startling climax on Christmas Eve in New Orleans.