The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe

The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. When a hint from her mother and clues from her research lead Connie to the shocking realization that her partner’s life is in danger, she must race to solve the mystery behind a hundreds’-years-long deadly curse.įlashing back through American history to the lives of certain supernaturally gifted women, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs affectingly reveals not only the special bond that unites one particular matriarchal line, but also explores the many challenges to women’s survival across the decades-and the risks some women are forced to take to protect what they love most.Ī spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America-especially women’s home recipes and medicines-and by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curseĬonnie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft.

The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe