The real selling point of this book is the history of the Mayfair family. Both beautiful and rich and well educated with impeccable taste etc. Our two main characters are both fairly well drawn though there is more than a hint of Mary/Gary Stu about them. I don't think I would call this a horror novel, nothing particularly scary happens but it does build a rich atmosphere of danger, little and large hints that things are not quite right with the Mayfair family. Primarily about Rowan Mayfair, a neurosurgeon in San Francisco who was adopted at birth and starts to find out about her birth family after the death of her adoptive parents, and Michael Curry, a period house restorer who after a near death experience begins an interaction with Rowan and her Mayfair family. Of all the places in the US that I wouldn't mind visiting it is probably that city and this book plays no small part in it. Set primarily in New Orleans, this is a very atmospheric read. The magic of the Mayfairs continues: THE WITCHING HOUR Moving through time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV’s France, and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel. Anne Rice offers more than just a story she creates myth.”- The Washington Post Book World Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery-aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches-finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and-in passionate alliance-set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds.
From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles-the inspiration for the hit television series! “Extraordinary.
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