The Witches of Echo Park (An Echo Park Coven Novel)

Author: Benson, Amber

Color: Multicolor

Number Of Pages: 304

Details:

First in a “spellbinding”* series about a coven of witches living in L.A., from Amber Benson, author of the Calliope Reaper-Jones novels. Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using magic to keep the world in balance. But the witches are being eliminated—and we will all pay if their power falls…   When Lyse MacAllister’s great-aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her life in Georgia on hold to rush back to Los Angeles. And once she returns to Echo Park, Lyse discovers her great-aunt has been keeping extraordinary secrets from her.   Not only is Lyse heir to Eleanora’s Victorian house; she is also expected to take her great-aunt’s place in the Echo Park coven of witches. But accepting her destiny means placing herself in deadly peril—for the world of magic is under siege, and the battle the witches now fight may be their last…

Reviews:

Praise for the Echo Park Coven Novels  

“A dark compelling page-turner.”—Kelley Armstrong, #1  New York Times bestselling author of  Betrayals  

“Great characters, great story, great setting—Amber Benson’s got it.”—John Scalzi,  New York Times bestselling author of  The End of All Things  

“Dark, delicious, and devilishly intricate.”—Seanan McGuire,  New York Times bestselling author of  Once Broken Faith  

“Dark, thoughtful urban fantasy...A fantastic read.”—Christopher Golden, #1  New York Times bestselling author of  Dead Ringers  

“[An] urban fantasy series that deftly mixes magic and the modern world.”

— Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Amber Benson is the author of the Echo Park Coven Novels and the Calliope Reaper-Jones Novels. She cocreated, cowrote, and directed the animated supernatural Web series  Ghosts of Albion with Christopher Golden, which they followed with a series of novels, including  Witchery and  Accursed, and the novella  Astray. Benson and Golden also coauthored the novella  The Seven Whistlers. As an actress, she has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the fan-favorite role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of  Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson wrote, produced, and directed the feature films  Chance and  Lovers,  Liars and Lunatics. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Eleanora “It’s in the blood.” Hessika’s voice was low and gravelly as she spoke, her drawn-in Cupid’s-bow lips overenunciating each word. There was a loud snap as the green pod in Eleanora’s hands split into two, three glistening peas falling into the half-filled orange ceramic bowl cradled in her lap. She sat in a weathered rattan rocking chair, her bare legs and arms sticky with the autumnal California heat, the dark blue chambray shirt and jean shorts she’d put on that morning plastered against her pale, freckled skin. She stopped rocking at those words—It’s in the blood—and turned to look at the woman who was twelve years her elder. Hessika sat perched on a rocking chair the twin of Eleanora’s, but it looked small and fragile beneath her massive frame. In other, less forgiving times, she would’ve been drummed out of her home and marginalized to the fringes of society for the way she looked, but now she was just a curiosity, an object of intense fascination for the neighborhood children who liked to loiter at the bottom of her lawn and stare at the giantess as she worked in the garden that was her sanctuary. Standing six feet, eight inches tall in her stocking feet, Hessika was a female oddity of extreme contradictions: She had the posture and grace of a prima ballerina, but one who thought nothing of squatting barefoot in the dirt to pull the hardiest of weeds from her flower beds. Her garden was as close to a shrine or temple as their kind believed in, and Hessika was its rough master, forcing her enormous hands, joints stiff and swollen from arthritis, to do her bidding ...

EAN: 9780425268674

Release Date: 06-01-2015

Languages: English

Item Note: Good shape with typical wear. Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Very Good Ships fast! 2015

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood

Binding: Paperback