Katherine Smits

Sybilla Sanborn must break a centuries old curse before everything she cares about goes up in smoke.Sybilla is a nurse gifted with the ability to heal with her touch but cursed with visions of future tragedies she cannot prevent because no one heeds her warnings. With help from the mediums of the spiritualist town of Cassadaga, Florida, she learns she is descended from both the first person executed for witchcraft in this country and the man who accused her. Conn Ahern is an Iraq war vet dealing with pain and PTSD while working as a paramedic and struggling to save the ranch his grandmother founded. He's an atheist who wants nothing to do with the people of the town. When Conn and Sybilla meet, sparks fly, but not always in a good way, and their relationship fans the flames of jealousy and revenge in someone who doesn't want them to work things out.During a séance, her ancestor's spirit reveals how Sybilla can rid herself of the curse and save Conn, but the price may be too high.

The Cassadaga Collection

The Witch Trial Legacy

Susan Bruce

Feminism has fundamentally changed the ways in which we think about politics - in terms of representation, normative values, power relations and our very understanding of what the political means. These questions are not simply the product of late 20th century thinking. They build on a long and varied historical traditional of feminist writing. This volume examines some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, selected from both literary and analytical works, from the work of women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition. It is unique in offering close readings of short and highly pertinent passages in the texts selected, making it ideal for classroom use and for those progressing from texts offering a more general overview. Essays are included on a range of authors who have made significant contributions to feminist discourse but are not frequently anthologised, including Rachel Speght, Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Maria Stewart and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain.

Reading Feminist Texts

Feminist Moments

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates that these challenges emerge from a long and varied history of feminist writing. The volume brings together texts from literary and analytical works written by women and men, and from inside and outside the Western tradition, including Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Wheeler and William Thompson, Nazira Zeineddine, Betty Friedan, Andrea Dworkin and Luisa Valenzuela. The volume is unique in offering close readings of key passages from the selected texts, making it ideal for classroom use; its original essays, all authored by specialists, will also be of interest to more advanced scholars. In juxtaposing and analysing a wide range of texts which despite their significance are rarely discussed together, Feminist Moments provides a fascinating historical narrative of feminist thought which will be highly valuable to students and scholars of the history of political thought, political philosophy and gender and literary studies.

Katherine Smits

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