USED- Hour of the Witch- Chris Bohjalian

A young Puritan woman- faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul- plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive historical thriller. 

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four years old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes deft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary- a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony- soon becomes the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from the Deerfield home, Mary must fight to escape not only her marriage but also the gallows.

A twisting, tightly plotted thriller from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Watch is a timely novel of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt. 

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