The Book of Shadows introduced Herculine. Now, in its sequel, The Book of Spirits, Herculine's journey of self-discovery continues. It is a search that will lead her into a world of shadows and perils where she will taste the forbidden and find redemption.

September, 1826. Taught to "Trust, …and learn" by a quartet of remarkable saviors, Herculine is bound for America, leaving behind a strange and violent past in France for an uncertain future in an exotic new land. Arriving in Virginia, fate leads her to Mother-of-Venus, a mysterious old slave woman who is blessed with gifts both terrifying and strange, and to a young poet named Edgar Poe who is haunted by evils of the past. Under the mystical guidance of Mammy Venus, Herculine calls upon her powerful legacy to rescue Celia, a beautiful, damaged slave. Landing in the coastal wilds of Florida, Celia stirs passions--and dark, otherworldly powers--within Herculine, propelling them into an erotic obsession that only the missing witch, Sebastiana d'Azur, can break.

Hope comes in a missive that will lure the desperate Herculine north, to the chaotic streets of New York and a strange, magical house in which the confused and eager witch is accepted by a band of like-minded sisters and introduced to exquisite carnal pleasures. Finally loosed from the shackles of shame and desire, Herculine heads south once again to find salvation and fulfill her destiny.

Set in a time of promise and peril, bondage and bloodshed, The Book of Spirits shatters the boundaries between the imagined and the historical, the magical and the ordinary, the living and the dead.