A Black Magic

Some secrets are written in ink. A witch’s secrets are written in blood.

New York, 1974. Fran Tarantino and her cousin Mary Jane are freshmen at Barnard College, trying to build ordinary lives around classes, notebooks, and the bright promise of independence. But one day, Fran touches a drop of her blood to an ancestral heirloom and falls into the memories it holds, living another woman’s life in the space of a heartbeat.

She is searching for the one truth no living person can give her: how to break free of Daedrian, the self-proclaimed angel who has ruled the women of her bloodline for centuries and calls his dominion love.

Daedrian is always near, whether she can see him or not, listening at every door. To survive him, the cousins wage their rebellion in passing notebooks across their study-room table by day, while Fran plays the role he expects at night to keep his impatience from turning violent. Each vision costs her more than the last, and the blood remembers truths he would kill to keep buried: what he truly is, and what it will take to end him.

In the chilling finale of The Haunted Women trilogy, A Black Magic braids three centuries of one family’s darkness into a single story of ancestral memory, patient courage, and the women who refuse to leave their dead unanswered.

This is Book 3 of a trilogy. For the full descent, begin with A Perfect Night (Book 1) and A Blood Witch (Book 2).

Content Warning: Contains scenes of sexual violence and abuse.