A young teenage girl hanged for witchcraft in 1625 curses her future family line. In a plot stretching from the voyage of The Mayflower to present day Massachusetts, ancient magic haunts an English family visiting America to find their roots. First there's flash floods, then hushed whispers in the hotel they reside, then ghostly images of a girl in a white bonnet...Daughters of Salem unfolds another story set centuries ago, when the wilds of North America were just beginning to get tamed. This was a time of puritanical ...
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A young teenage girl hanged for witchcraft in 1625 curses her future family line. In a plot stretching from the voyage of The Mayflower to present day Massachusetts, ancient magic haunts an English family visiting America to find their roots. First there's flash floods, then hushed whispers in the hotel they reside, then ghostly images of a girl in a white bonnet...Daughters of Salem unfolds another story set centuries ago, when the wilds of North America were just beginning to get tamed. This was a time of puritanical beliefs, savage frontiers, and supernatural energies. A time of the family's ancestor Isaac Hall, and his kindred outsider spirit, Sarah. As we watch the detective story of the modern day Hall family unfold, Judith and Paul treat us to the story of Isaac Hall, eventually bringing the two storylines together in one climactic and dramatic way.When reading this book, I found I could not put it down. It was truly captivating and riveting and held my attention to the very end. Whether you enjoy accurate historical fiction, or a modern who-done-it, or even just a par excellence look at the early days of the settling of the New World, this story has it all. Bill Duvendack, Author, Editor, Publisher.From the moment I first started reading the visuals were there instantly. The personalities are not simple and that is a beautiful strong point; they have a multi-dimensional quality to them. This is a perfect example of what good fiction should do. When enjoying this you feel as you are truly in a third person in an albeit too real of a historical hologram. The feelings of the characters. Resident in a brave new country just before its birth. The interaction of personalities. Beautifully written. The premium part to me, being the student of spirituality and the occult, is the energies that the characters invoke directly into the words of every moment of their exploration and discovering of their own empowerment. Suspenseful, quiet dark beauty. Their experiences evoking thought and possibility within myself. There are many works of fiction that can be a chore to read. I think you will find quite the opposite. In fact, I believe you will find great frustrations with having to put the book down without immersing yourself unto its grasping conclusion. James Hunter-Ralston. Setian Sorcerer, creator of custom talismans and amulets.
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