The High Priestess
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4.4 • 9 Ratings
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Wealthy landowners own the Eastern Network, so uneducated witch Vittoria Gutia isn't about to make any waves.
She either works as a lavanda maid, or she and her beloved nephew starve to death.
That sort of math is pretty simple.
When an unexpected savior lands in her lap, fate falls with him. La Salvatorra—Giver of Justice—beckons her with him.
To save her nephew, Vittoria takes the reckless Landowners' soon-to-be-disastrous offer. She's thrust into a glittering new court, a world without conscience, and the burden of saving her entire Network.
Can Vittoria save her witches by focusing on what matters most? Or will the world of power and men cast her aside like the lavanda maid she was raised to be?
THE HIGH PRIESTESS is the first novel in the Historical Collection. This exhilarating tale of first love and tyranny will sweep you to a new place.
Customer Reviews
High Priestess - newest success by Katie Cross
I have read every single book written by Katie Cross. I started reading her books to escape my stress of the Covid19 Pandemic and to replace my Harry Potter addiction. All of Katie Cross' books provide the same high quality level of escape from reality and into a intricately described world of fantasy, magic, danger, and intimate love and passion, without becoming inappropriately sexual for young readers. I get hooked into each character that she brings to life. I even think about and worry about the characters, as if I know them, when I must put the book down to do my real life!
The High Priestess takes the reader back in history many hundreds of years before the other book series by Katie Cross. If you are new to Katie Cross and want to read her books chronologically, read this book first and then go to the Dragonmaster Trilogy and then The Network Series! The High Priestess may be historical, but it is absolutely NOT boring! You will instantly love (well almost) every character in this book. In this world, there is extreme poverty and extreme wealth and some dream of a better life with equality of all the witches. There is civil unrest and danger and surprise plot twists during the story adding suspense all the way till the end. At the end of every Katie Cross book, I want to know what happens next, and The High Priestess is no different! I am looking forward to the next book in The Historical Collection.
Thank you Ms. Cross, for allowing me to escape the ongoing reality of the Covid19 Pandemic and into your exciting and beautiful fantasy world, yet again!!
Outstanding
Once again, the maestro has done it! Katie Cross never ceases to amaze me, with one outstanding book after another.
I was very much looking forward to this book, yet nervous at the same time. I am a Bianca fan (from the original Network Collection) and did not want anyone to usurp my devotion for Bianca. It was close! Vittoria is a character you immediately can relate to, and you want her to succeed. She is so good down to the fiber of her being that nothing can go wrong, right? Ah the twists!
And Mateo! He’s a character that I would like to be. He’s caring, but at the same time he has this attitude that things have to be done no matter what, and we see this come to fruition!
Intrigue, love, deceit... it’s all here and then some! Katie Cross is once again at her best. Vittoria didn’t replace Bianca, for me, but how cool it would be if these two lived in the same time and fought together!!!
Loved it
I’m not generally a 5-star-reader, but since I read this book in one sitting, I feel it was earned.
So enjoyed it, especially as a fan of Alkarra and the stories within.