This novel will bend and twist your notion of what love is, while leaving you utterly bewitched." KIRKUS REVIEWS(Starred Review)
"Vivid and impressive...Fans of Addie LaRue will be enthralled." PUBLISHER'S WEEKY (Starred Review)
An inventive and romantic speculative novel about two womena witch and an immortal demonwho make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.
1592. Cybil Harding is a First Daughter. Cursed to bring disaster to those around her, she is trapped in a house with a mother paralyzed by grief and a father willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of magic.
Miriam Richter is a creature of shadow. Forged by the dark arts many years ago, she is doomed to exist for eternity and destined to be alonekilling mortals and consuming their souls for sustenance. Everything changes when she meets Cybil, whose soul shines with a light so bright, she must claim it for herself. She offers a bargain: she will grant Cybil reincarnation in exchange for her soul.
Thus begins a dance across centuries as Miriam seeks Cybil in every lifetime to claim her prize. Cybil isnt inclined to play by the rules, but when it becomes clear that Miriam holds the key to breaking her family curse, Cybil finds thatfor the first time in her many livesshe might have the upper hand. As they circle each other, drawn together inescapably as light and dark, the bond forged between them grows stronger. In their battle for dominance, only one of them can winbut perhaps they cant survive without each other.
Natasha Siegel has written an unexpected love story that feels both epic and deeply personal. Ambitious, gothic, and magical, As Many Souls as Stars is about the lengths we go to protect ourselves, our legacy, and those we love.
