Lasher
core novel 1993 Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Record
| First published | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.88 (66,635 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 896 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345397812 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Rowan has vanished and Michael Curry falls into deep depression searching for her, drawn back toward purpose in part through his growing closeness with Mona Mayfair, a precocious and powerful teenage witch cousin. The novel follows Rowan's own ordeal in parallel, as she is effectively held captive across Europe by the being called Lasher, who works to keep her isolated from her family while attempting again and again to impregnate her. Even confined, Rowan manages to smuggle DNA samples out to scientific colleagues, and the analysis that follows begins to reveal that Lasher is not the ghost or spirit her family long believed him to be, but something of an entirely different, ancient nature altogether. As Michael's search for Rowan intensifies and Mona's role in the family's affairs grows more central, the true, inhuman origins of the being called Lasher start to come into focus.
Where it sits
- Universe: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
- Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Anne Rice
Notes
- From the series record (Lives of the Mayfair Witches): Core Canon = the original trilogy (1990-1994) centered on the Mayfair family.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Lives of the Mayfair Witches: position 2 of 3: previous The Witching Hour (1990) · next Taltos (1994)
Sources
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