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Description

Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding stoyrtelling, Anne Rice makes real a family of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philsophy, a family that is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. "Unfolds like a poisonous lotus blossom... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Rowan Mayfair: Rowan is one of several of the most powerful of the Mayfair Witches and also the heir to the Mayfair fortune. A neurosurgeon raised in San Francisco, she wants to build a massive, state-of-the-art medical center in New Orleans.
  • Michael Curry: Born and raised in the Irish quarter of New Orleans, Michael Curry is a burly and strong man in his fifties. While in San Francisco, he accidentally drowns and, when saved by Rowan Mayfair, acquires a clairvoyant power by touch though the near-death experience

First Sentence

THE DOCTOR WOKE UP AFRAID.

Table of Contents

Part One - Come Together
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Part Two - The Mayfair Witches
Thirteen (The File On The Mayfair Witches)
Fourteen (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part II)
Fifteen (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part III)
Sixteen (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part IV)
Seventeen (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part V)
Eighteen
Nineteen (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part VI)
Twenty (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part VII)
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part VIII)
Twenty-Three (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part IX)
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five (The File On The Mayfair Witches Part X)
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
Thirty-One
Thirty-Two
Part Three - Come Into My Parlor
Thirty-Three
Thirty-Four
Thirty-Five
Thirty-Six
Thirty-Seven
Thirty-Eight
Thirty-Nine
Part Four - The Devil“s Bride
Forty
Forty-One
Forty-Two
Forty-Three
Forty-Four
Forty-Five
Forty-Six
Forty-Seven
Forty-Eight
Forty-Nine
Fifty
Fifty-One
Fifty-Two
Epilogue
Fifty-Three
Fifty-Four

Series

This is book 1 in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series.

 

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