Hour of The Witch by Chris Bohjalian

New York Times Bestseller. From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant- and Historical fiction at its bestandhellip,. The book is a thriller in structure, and a real page-turner, the ending both unexpected and satisfying and (Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series, The Washington Post). A young Puritan woman faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense. Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Marya woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies,…