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OverviewFor eighty years, Rahne has kept the peace. She built Eclipse from nothing - a neutral-ground nightclub in the heart of San Diego where the supernatural underground could gather without threat, where old enemies could share a drink and old grudges could go unspoken. Valensi and Garou, predator and prey, all of them safe within her walls. She built it on one principle: she doesn't choose sides. It was easier to call that wisdom. It was easier not to notice it was a cage. When bodies start turning up - Valensi, targeted with surgical precision by a Hunter armed with weapons designed to make them suffer - the pressure to act finds Rahne from every direction. Jessica Light, the Garou Alpha who has been her closest ally for forty years, doesn't mince words: neutrality isn't the same as safety, and Eclipse's silence is beginning to look like permission. But Rahne has reasons for the cage. Old reasons. Reasons written in blood and snow and a grief so calcified it's harder than bone. Then one of her own is murdered. Then another. Then someone she trusted for decades reveals himself as the enemy she never saw coming. Rahne is done waiting. As she moves to dismantle the network tightening around San Diego's supernatural community, the threads lead somewhere far worse than a lone Hunter. The Hierarchy - the ancient governing body that has controlled Valensi society for millennia - is watching. They've always been watching. And they've decided that Eclipse, and the woman who built it, have been ungoverned long enough. Parallel to Rahne's reckoning, the women of her world are navigating their own reckonings. Aurora - ancient, controlled, living under an assumed name to escape a Hierarchy death warrant - finds herself navigating an impossible situation: working alongside the man she once loved, who doesn't know her at all. And Daphne, who spent two years learning to survive a wound she never asked for, faces the woman who left her - and has to decide whether love that survives betrayal is still love worth keeping. WITCH is the third book in The Valensi Chronicles - a story of what happens when the most powerful woman in the room finally stops pretending she isn't. It is a story about chosen family, about grief that transforms into something with teeth, about the cost of restraint, and about the moment a woman who has survived twenty-five centuries decides that survival was never the point. The neutral ground stands. The war room is open. The witch of Eclipse is hunting. Full Product DetailsAuthor: C L Stegall , Ahmed SafeerPublisher: Studio Valensi Imprint: Studio Valensi Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9780999460085ISBN 10: 0999460080 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 01 June 2026 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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