Unsure as to exactly what this spirit is, the Mayfair clan knows him variously as a protector, a god-like figure, a sexual being, and the image of death.

Lasher gives the witches gifts, excites them, and protects them.

One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of 'the man,' known as Lasher. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. Called Out of Darkness:A Spiritual Confession (2008).The Master of Rampling Gate (Vampire Short Story) (1982).Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (2008).Prince Lestat and the Realmsof Atlantis (2016).Blood Communion: A Tale ofPrince Lestat (2018).Ramses the Damned:The Reign of Osiris (2022).Throughout generations to come, questions of life and death, and good and evil, play their role in developing the timeline of this family up to the present day, when it reaches a climax on another New Orleans Christmas Eve. She once conjured up a spirit named Lasher, which impacted not just her own life, but those of all her descendants. Moving in time from modern-day New Orleans, where they meet Aaron Lightner, a psychic Talamasca scholar who studied the Mayfairs for decades, and San Francisco to historic Amsterdam and a château in Louis XIV’s France, the identity of the first Mayfair witch is revealed as Suzanne. They fall in love and attempt to unravel both her past and his present, in which they determine they both descended from a male witch named Julien Mayfair. Michael has built a life for himself and, in his near-death experience, has gained startling sensory powers. She brings back to life Michael, a drowned man off the California coast, who was born in New Orleans and became a childhood orphan one Christmas. In The Witching Hour, Roman Mayfair is a modern-day neurosurgeon aware that she has some sort of special powers. I tried to keep them as spoiler-free as possible, so as not to ruin the storylines for you, but please beware that general advancements in the plot are referenced in each plot summary, as is necessary to describe each book. ( The Mayfair Witches Collection (2000) is a compilation of all three Mayfair Witches books.)īelow are quick plot details about the three Mayfair Witches books.

The witching hour series in order