Rowan Mayfair-a San Francisco brain surgeon gifted with second sight, the power to heal (she foretells which cases will live before she lifts her knife), and the power to kill with her mind-was taken at birth from her Mayfair witch mother and raised by an aunt in San Francisco, and never knows until her mother dies that she is to inherit $7.5 billion. It's a couple of hundred pages (or more) before Rice hooks the reader and gets her major characters together the story circles about the Mayfair family (bulking out the book are a few dozen family vignettes) and the generations of Mayfair witches who have accumulated one of the world's great fortunes while awaiting 'the thirteenth'-the thirteenth witch in their succession, who will be the doorway by which a supernormal entity enters the human world and takes flesh. We are so excited to join our partners AMC and Gran Via Productions in making this mysterious and provocative world come to life.First behemoth installment (800+ pp.) in a new occult romance by Rice-now moving back into the bougainvillea and the New Orleans Garden District for her steamy new world of southern witchcraft.

Women who are powerful, often brutal, and always committed to subverting our current power structures. And yet Anne Rice’s particular lens on witches explored something new altogether. Spalding and Ashford said: “The world of witches has fascinated and terrified for centuries. Running the series are Masters of Sex’s Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford. In a business in which ‘nobody knows anything,’ we knew what we were hoping for in terms of building a television franchise around these remarkable characters and stories, and to see these shows arrive and captivate viewers in the way they have is so gratifying and energizing for everyone involved, and there is so much yet to come. We are thrilled with the reaction to this series, especially in the wake of the incredibly strong reception to Interview, and can’t wait to bring the fans second seasons of both series in this rich, vibrant and expanding universe based on the works of Anne Rice.

AMC Networks entertainment president and AMC Studios head Dan McDermott shares:

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