Just south of Tupelo, Mississippi on the Natchez Trace lies a place of mystery called Witch Dance.When Thomas and Margaret Speedwell took their twins to Witch Dance for a weekend camping trip, they never imagined they would be pulled into a vortex of witchcraft, tragedy, and karma. One of the girls goes missing; the other won’t say what happened on the other side of the hill.The tragedy pulls … together a cast of characters from Margaret’s childhood and beyond – Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, Toltec ancestors, the extinct Hopewell tribe.With the help of a childhood friend, a concerned newspaper reporter, and visions by a strange old woman, a two thousand year old mystery begins to unfold, uncovering missing children throughout generations. Who is taking them? Could it be the infamous witches of Witch Dance?
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Oh wow! I love a bit of escapism and Witch Dance totally hit the spot for me!
Thomas and Margaret’s daughter, Sarah, went missing without a trace. Their other daughter, Emily, Sarah’s twin, refuses to say a word to anyone about it. While Thomas returns home with Emily, Margaret stays on and is determined to find Sarah and bring her home where she belongs. Little does she know that things are a little more complicated than she could have ever anticipated and when she finds out about tales of witchcraft and about other children going missing without a trace over so many tears, the task of finding Sarah seems almost impossible. Will they get the happy ever after that they are looking for?
A gripping and thrilling read, which is shocking and yet inspiring, Witch Dance is a brilliant read. I can’t put into words how much I enjoyed this book. It is definitely one that I would recommend as a must read!
The Witch Dance
Author Lori Crane
Genre: paranormal
Pages: 167
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Mandy for Janise’s Jivin Book Blog
What would you do if you were on the brink of death after losing a child during child birth but given an option of drinking a potion that you know nothing about but the price is what you did not expect? Would you choose life or take the death that is looming over you? Saline seems to be at a cross roads with this decision not knowing what will happen in the morning light but soon things will be seen in the light for what they are and she must once again choose what to do.
Margret and her family are trying to make things work, but with so much that has happened she is on the brink of losing so much, when her husband Thomas suggest a camping trip to the Bynum Mounds in Mississippi but one thing they didn’t count on was having one of their own go missing so quickly after arriving. With a marriage that is on the brink of destruction and an old friend who is now in the picture can Margret make the decision she needs to in order to pay the price of what is to come. But she must learn of the past to save the present.
Two worlds, two time periods with different people soon collide within the pages of the Witch dance a place where witches danced and everything died, two brothers at odds with one another over something out of their control, to mothers with everything to lose. This book is something that brings the past and present to life.
Lori Crane has taken history and fiction and thrown them together to create a world that is something one could only dream about and the horrors of the past meet the present in this amazing fantastic book about Indians, witches, and things that we don’t really quite understand. But who’s to say that there are not things that go bump in the night.