No witch ever held so much political power. And only the other witch in the Colonies can snatch it all away from her. Boston, 1742. Kate Finch longs to put the rumors to rest. She wields power as the colony’s Minister of Magickal Sciences with precision, yet her rivals fill the taverns with unending gossip about her. When her fiercest critic approaches with a mystery stranger than any she’s known, she warily agrees to help the influential woman find her ne’er-do-well brother. Following the trail of his reckless contacts with the spirit-world, Kate confronts specters immune to her witchcraft, a woman both dead and undead, and cryptic signs hinting at her own secret past. In the center of this riddle appears an adversary she never imagined: another witch, one more than happy to prey on Kate’s deepest fears. Can Kate unlock the cipher of a deadly ghost realm while staying one step ahead of a sociopathic foe? The Governor’s Witch is the thrilling first volume in The Books of Witchery historical fantasy series. If you like determined heroines, captivating magic, and supernatural mysteries, then you’ll love Kevan Dale’s relentless page-turner. Buy The Governor’s Witch to dive into the pandemonium today!

The little-known story of a priest's charges of witchcraft among Indians in mid-eighteenth-century New Mexico and how the Spanish government rejected the charges in the effort to achieve peace with their Native subjects.

Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen’s writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time—the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear. The year is 1619, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katherina Kepler is accused of being a witch. An illiterate widow, Katherina is known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It’s enough to make anyone jealous, and Katherina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone’s business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katherina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katherina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katherina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katherina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. Provocative and entertaining, Galchen’s bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society, and a family, undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.

Magic-riddled colonial New England comes alive in this sharp and intricate novel from the author of The Magic of Unkindness. With unforgettable characters and lavish detail, The Governor's Witch keeps the fantasy twists coming.

Dale Van Every’s soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both... They weathered the brutal winter of ‘79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the proud, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw. They shred that cruel season knowing that, when the thaws came, Adam would return to Trace’s Landing and to Cynthia, the faithful young widow who waited for him there; knowing, too, that Nita would try to keep him—with all the savage passion that had earned her the name... One of Dale Van Every’s most exciting historical novels...filled with the raw emotions and rich adventures of America’s untamed past... “Fascinating, vivid, real!”—The New York Times

Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING ALEX CRAFT SERIES! Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, but that doesn’t mean she likes what they have to say. As a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex Craft has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though she's on good terms with Death himself, nothing has prepared her for her latest case. When she's raising a "shade" involved in a high profile murder, it attacks her, and then someone makes an attempt on her life. Someone really doesn't want her to know what the dead have to say, and she'll have to work with mysterious homicide detective Falin Andrews to figure out why....