The Last Witch

Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is doing: keeping house, supporting her husband, bearing his children. But when her husband''s footman, Leopold, with whom she was having an affair, is found dead, Helena is accused of killing him. Worse, she is accused of being a witch. Imprisoned with six other women, Helena is plunged from her bejewelled life of comfort into a world of terror. When a cursed witch totem is smuggled into the prison, the prisoners attempt to use it to conjure escape. But the totem is the severed hand of a murdered woman, and Helena''s life is in danger both inside and outside the dungeon. Does Helena risk her life and the lives of others by standing up to a man determined to paint her as the most wicked of all? Or is the world beyond this one the real threat? Based on a real-life event, this historical horror offers a jewel-bright portrait of female power in a period of wide-spread female disempowerment, a thrilling addition to the canon of witcherature and silenced voices from the past.

Product details

• Authors: C J Cooke, C.J. Cooke
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9780008656263
• ISBN: 978-0-00-865626-3
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, Innsbruck, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Witchcraft, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Horror & ghost stories, Occult fiction, Classic horror & ghost stories, Magic, spells and alchemy, Magic, spells & alchemy, Classic horror and ghost stories, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction, Later 15th century c 1450 to c 1499