Rituals

SECRETS...

Hastings Corner was one of those quiet New England towns where families lived for generation after generation, a good place to settle and raise your kids. Or was it? Because Hastings Corner had an unusually high accidental death rate among its female population.

Dr. Abby Stewart was all too familiar with this statistic. Her best friend Laura had died tragically and her own daughter Jenna had also met with an unexpectedly early end. And Abby was becoming convinced there was nothing accidental about it. For she, Laura, Jenna, and Laura's daughter Greer all shared a very special secret—one which might have been the death of Laura and Jenna, one which could place Abby and Greer in terrible peril. They were witches—and not the Halloween variety, or followers of Wicca either. They were members of a small, select, and endangered subset of the human race whose genetic makeup gave them gifts of healing, of mind control, and other powers which could be used for the good of humankind or as weapons in a desperate war of survival.

And for Abby Stewart and Greer Morgan that battle to survive was about to begin....

"No writer of popular fiction is more consistently readable and challenging than Ed Gorman." —Ellery Queen Magazine

“One of the most original thriller writers around.” —Kirkus