Review\n"A battle of good and evil plays out during the Salem Witch Trials in this haunting inspirational from Ott (A Time to Heal). Lydia Knapp and three of her friends ask Ann Putnam, the daughter of an established local family, to lead them to clairvoyant slave Tituba. Lydia is looking for the name of her future husband, but instead she unknowingly opens a door to evil. Meanwhile, the demon Sonneillon, along with three other demons, has been called to Salem for the upcoming witch trials, and Tituba's ritual helps their cause. When Tituba predicts that death is coming, Ann forces everyone into silence. But soon, two girls who accompanied Lydia come down with a strange sickness blamed on demonic possession, and the town of Salem is thrown into an uproar. With angels of God posted on guard (unbeknownst to Salem's Christians, whose prayers summoned them), awaiting permission from angel Raphael to intervene, Sonneillon and his demons put Lucifer's plans into action by possessing anyone they can. With the angels holding on to the prayers of the faithful few and awaiting more faithful adherents to create a "prayer cover" so that they can intervene, Lydia must confront her family's dark history and the role they played in bringing about the trials. Ott skillfully recasts the Salem Witch Trials as a Christian battle for the soul of the New World in this thrilling tale."--PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY\n"A very engrossing novel. Highly Recommended." --Perspectives by Peter, Feedspot's Top 50 review blog\nWhen two young girls act out in strange and violent behavior, the village doctor diagnoses them as bewitched. Accusations fly among the village people, and no one is immune to the dangers of an unseen force. Lydia watches her loved ones suffer, but can she stop the supernatural evil that has taken over her community?\nLucifer’s plan to wreak havoc on the community is working, and his demons revel in the turmoil they are inflicting upon the innocent people of Salem. The small village becomes a battleground between the angels of God and the demons of Satan as an evil plot unfolds in the spiritual realm.\nBrace yourself for a new and suspenseful insight into one of our nation’s most tragic events. This riveting read offers a spooky account of spiritual warfare in early American history.

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Literature & Fiction

Ott, Fayla

Genre Fiction

Heritage House Publishing

FOR FANS OF LISA WINGATEFrom award-winning author Fayla Ott comes a "Grit Lit" story about secrets in the south. It's 1979, and there are two entities that are sacred in the Mississippi Delta: the church and the family. If things aren't what they're supposed to be, then you keep your mouth shut. And if you're a white child like Tara, you certainly don't go seeking solitude at a black woman's house. Unless you're looking for trouble.Tara suffers abuse as she grows up, not only from her mother, but from men in the church. Wandering into the forbidden "Color Town", she meets Onnie, a scarred black woman with secrets of her own. Despite their strong bond of friendship, Onnie is unable to rescue Tara from her nightmarish childhood, but the two remain close until tragedy and loss strikes, and Tara runs away from all she has ever known. Thinking she is finally free from her lifelong abuse, she settles in the "Big Easy" city of New Orleans, and enters another world where she accepts her fate as a forever victim. Until she has to go back to where it all started. Can she move past the pain to forgive her mother and accept a love she doesn't trust? Join Tara on her journey to healing in the deep south where family loyalty is as strong as cotton and the secrets are just as plentiful.

Seventy Times Seven

In 1852, deep in the Delta of Mississippi, the choice to sell one slave sets in motion a series oftragic events for two families that will test the honor and faith of all.Years before the brutality of the Civil War, acts of callous cruelty were already a way of life. In the rich alluvial soil of the Mississippi River, the Banks family of Arledge Hall Plantation decides expansion is in order. To raise money for more land, a young slave is sold to the Stanfords of Five Oaks, a neighboring plantation. The sale of Thomas rips him from his parents, Joe and Lucy, and puts members of the Banks family at odds with each other as some of them know how dangerous the Stanford's abusive overseer can be. Merciless and vindictive, the overseer is a brute who has no respect for any man, regardless of skin color, and even less respect for women. Joe and Lucy grieve the absence of their son, knowing only God alone can protect Thomas. But trying to find acceptance that their usually docile master sold their child requires a strength they're not sure they have. As they grapple with heartache, circumstances find Joe protecting a woman from the overseer's advances, a decision that guarantees retribution by way of Thomas. In turn, this creates an unimaginable domino effect of vengeance, intimidation, and eventually, murder, rending the two southern families' friendship and fracturing the budding romances between the Stanford and Banks children--although forbidden fruit tempts all the more. As a vengeful enemy continues to threaten the occupants of Arledge Hall, Joe's courageous faith shines like a beacon in a storm. But as a final cruel twist of fate plays out, can the two families endure while facing the approaching threat of war?Spend a decade at Arledge Hall in this first book of the trilogy and discover why you'll want to visit again and again.

The Golden Hour (Arledge Hall)

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Seventy Times Seven

The Golden Hour (Arledge Hall)