The Book of Shadows
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ISBN: 0061031844 / Publisher: HarperTorch, December 2002
An enigmatic orphan raised in the convent, Herculine is spirited away from her scandalous life by otherworldly beings to a fantastical, sensual world where she discovers the secrets of her destiny in the midst of heresy and hysteria. A first novel. Reprint.
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Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful, mysterious Sebastiana. Swept away to the witch's manor, Herculine will enter a fantastic, erotic world to discover her true nature -- and her destiny -- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual first novel.
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