Showing results for "Nightbird" in Literature & Fiction

It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She's been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But Matthew Corbett, young clerk to the traveling magistrate summoned to Fount Royal to weigh the accusations, soon finds himself persuaded in favor of the beguiling young widow.

The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies -- and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew Corbett. Believing in Rachel's innocence, Matthew will soon confront the true evil at work in Fount Royal....

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air...

Ihr Kuss ist magisch. Ihre Identität ist geheim. Ihre Jäger sind gnadenlos. Magie ist in Simta verboten, deshalb sind die Nightbirds das bestgehütete Geheimnis der Stadt. Tagsübers spielen Matilde, Sayer und Æsa die Töchter aus gutem Hause, nachts geben sie als Nightbirds ihre Magie an zahlende Kunden weiter – mit einem Kuss. Doch dann entgehen sie nur knapp einem Attentat und plötzlich wird ihr glamouröses Leben zum goldenen Käfig.