Season of the Witch

by Natasha Mostert

Dutton, 395 pp, $24.95

Season of the Witch is the fourth novel by the author of The Midnight Side, The Other Side of Silence, and Windwalker. It might be termed an Occult mystery-fantasy.

All his life, Gabriel Blackstone has been a remote viewer, someone who can enter the most private and personal thoughts. When his arrogance might have cost a kidnapped woman her life, he ceased the practice of his gift. Instead he became a data thief. When his ex-girlfriend asks him to find out what happened to her stepson, old feelings surface. And when he agrees, his search leads him to a pair of sexy solar witches, students of alchemy and the ancient Art of Memory.

Gabriel is soon convinced that one of the Monk sisters is the murderer of the young man. But determining who requires deepening involvement with the sisters, When he tries remote viewing , he finds himself being scanned. The hunter becomes the hunted and his hacking of the computers cannot tell him who is the diarist. Meanwhile he is seduced into their erotic world. As people start dying, he finds himself under psychic attack. Will he survive? Will the sisters?

This page-turner is filled with erotic action, chilling twists and erudite turns. It gives a whole new meaning to “it’s all in your mind.” Great characterization, and beautiful imagery will have me looking for more by this author . - Pam Allan