Lasher

Anne Rice

Nov 2010 · Lives of Mayfair Witches Book 2 · Sold by Ballantine Books

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series!
 
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
 
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,” Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjured up the spirit she named Lasher—a creation that spelled her own destruction and torments each of her descendants. Now, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from this darkly brutal yet irresistible demon.

The magic of the Mayfairs continues:
THE WITCHING HOUR • LASHER • TALTOS

Ratings and reviews

Anne Rice has weaved a combination of horror and terror spanning centuries, portraying fantastic creatures of the night that you will turn out your light feeling in turn both revulsion and sympathy. Again. Mark Degler.

exceptional book! and me w/no money. I've read all I can get my hands on & never get old.

There has to be more written about the Mayfair witches ... extraordinary read cannot put it down...

About the author

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.