Herculina, a bisexual adherent of the mystical witch community, who, due to tragic circumstances, moved from France to America, receives an invitation to Cuba from the witch Sebastiana d'Azur. But instead of a “mystical sister”, she is met in Havana by a monk named Queverdo Bru. Herculina has no idea that she has become the victim of a cunning intrigue and will face the fate of a living “hermetic androgyne” intended to create the philosopher’s stone... Anne Rice, creator of the famous “Vampire Chronicles,” called James Reese’s witch chronicles “a deep insight into the essence of the Gothic novel” and put them on an equal footing with the best examples of the genre.