{"product_id":"the-witching-hour-paperback","title":"The Witching Hour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirteen generations of Mayfair witches, one entity that has attended every one of them, and a neurosurgeon who has no idea what she's inheriting.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf note: A big, lush book to disappear into for a few weeks. The family history is the best part.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRowan Mayfair was given up at birth and raised in California, knowing nothing of the family house on First Street in New Orleans or the legacy attached to it. She has a gift she doesn't understand: an ability to kill with a thought, which she has used without meaning to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a man drowns off the coast and she brings him back, and the Talamasca, an order that has quietly documented the Mayfairs for three centuries, decides it's time she read the file.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe file is most of the book, and it's extraordinary. Rice traces the Mayfair line from a seventeenth-century Scottish burning through Saint-Domingue and into Louisiana, generation by generation, each one shaped by the presence they call Lasher. It's genealogy as horror, and the accumulated weight of it is what makes the present-day story land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Anne Rice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSeries:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Book 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780345367891\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967237849287,"sku":"9780345367891","price":23.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/0741\/9335\/files\/9780345367891.jpg?v=1792520343","url":"https:\/\/spineboundbooks.com\/products\/the-witching-hour-paperback","provider":"Spinebound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}