The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.

As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. William Stacey is a former career army officer and the author of the Vampire Queen Saga and the Dark Elf War series.Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.

You'll love this dark fantasy novel because of its compelling characters, raw and vivid imagery, and graphic fight scenes. Now, Asgrim must team with a suspected Frankish witch to stop the demon before it's unleashed upon the world. When he learns of a great treasure hidden away beneath a monastery on a Frankish island, Asgrim thinks fate has given him one final chance.ĭeep beneath the stones of the mysterious Black Monastery, an unearthly evil has been set free-an eastern demon that hates the living.

But no man could hope to raise the princely blood debt placed upon him. Read the medieval dark fantasy horror tale that Amazon voted a 2014 Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-Finalist!īanned for killing the son of the jarl, Viking warband leader Asgrim seeks redemption and a way home again. But Asgrim is going to prove them all wrong.

Black Monastery by William Stacey