Hour of the Witch

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ΓÇó From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: ΓÇ£Historical fiction at its bestΓǪ. The book is a thriller in structure,and a real page-turnerthe ending both unexpected and satisfyingΓÇ¥ (Diana Gabaldonbestselling author of the Outlander seriesThe Washington Post). A young Puritan womanΓÇöfaithfulresourcefulbut afraid of the demons that dog her soulΓÇöplots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense. Boston1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelainher eyes delft blueand in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New Worldamid this community of saintsMary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfielda man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomasprone to drunken ragedrives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary’s handshe resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devila woman like MaryΓÇöa woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colonyΓÇösoon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary’s gardenwhen a boy she has treated with herbs and simples diesand when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her homeMary must fight to not only escape her marriagebut also the gallows. A twistingtightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellersHour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt.