A Lullaby for Witches

By Hester Fox

Book Overview

Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries.

Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do New England family who never quite fit with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin.

Called instead to the tangled woods and wild cliffs surrounding her family's estate, Margaret Harlowe grew both stranger and more beautiful as she cultivated her uncanny power. Soon, whispers of "witch" dogged her footsteps, and Margaret's power began to wind itself with the tendrils of something darker.

One hundred and fifty years later, Augusta Podos takes a dream job at Harlowe House, the historic home of a wealthy New England family that has been turned into a small museum in Tynemouth, Massachusetts. When Augusta stumbles across an oblique reference to a daughter of the Harlowes who has nearly been expunged from the historical record, the mystery is too intriguing to ignore.

But as she digs deeper, something sinister unfurls from its sleep, a dark power that binds one woman to the other across lines of blood and time. If Augusta can't resist its allure, everything she knows and loves--including her very life--could be lost forever.

Don't miss A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING, Hester Fox's lush, enchanting reimagining of The Little Mermaid, where a young woman in 1650 Friesland must face a deadly choice between love, duty, and a mythic legacy...

Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox:
The Book of Thorns The Last Heir to Blackwood Library The Witch of Willow Hall The Widow of Pale Harbor The Orphan of Cemetery Hill

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1525804693
• ISBN13: 9781525804694
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Graydon House
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

3 stars

A LULLABY FOR WITCHES by Hester Fox Twenty-something Augusta Podos lands her dream job as an archivist/collections manager at the historic Harlowe mansion. She’s immediately drawn to the historical disappearance of Margaret Harlowe; a witch who lived in the 1800s. I was really looking forward to reading this because I love a good gothic tale of witches and spooky hauntings, but it didn’t quite work for me. I wish Margaret’s backstory was fully developed especially since she was so essential to the story. I don’t feel the connection between Augusta and Margaret was believable either. In short, this had a lot of potential, but at the end the story was predictable, slow moving, and I was left with too many unanswered questions. Rating: 3/5 ⭐️