Season of the Witch
Gabriel Blackstone is a cool, hip, thoroughly twenty-first century Londoner with an unusual talent. A computer hacker by trade, he is – by inclination – a remote viewer; someone whose unique gifts enable him to 'slam rides' through the thought processes of others.
But reading people’s minds is something he does only with the greatest reluctance – until he is contacted by an ex-lover who begs him to use his gift to find her stepson, last seen months earlier in the company of two sisters.
And so Gabriel visits Monk House in Chelsea, a place where time seems to stand still. The living room is filled with the perfume of roses, African masks line the walls and everywhere – on doors, on walls, on ceilings even – the mysterious coded symbol of cross and circle dominates.
As the dog days of summer turn into a cold and hostile winter, Gabriel becomes increasingly bewitched by the house, and by its owners, the beautiful, enigmatic Monk sisters – one of whom is a killer, who will stop at nothing to protect a terrifying secret as old as time itself.
Season of the Witch is an extraordinary Gothic novel that takes on big themes – love, death, alchemy, the power of the human mind to transform and transcend reality – and wraps them into a thriller narrative that will beguile and entrance all who turn its pages.
