VENCO

Optioned for television by AMC, from the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the Marrow Thieves trilogy (winner of the Governor General's Award and Kirkus Prize) and Empire of Wild comes VenCo, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, and deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise

Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she finds out that she and her grandmother are about to be evicted from their apartment. One night while doing laundry in the building's dank basement, she finds a tarnished silver spoon depicting a story-book hag over letters that spell out S-A-L-E-M, and unknowingly alerts a hidden network of witches masquerading under the guise of international headhunting firm VenCo. Devoted to placing exceptional women in roles where they can influence business, politics, and the arts, VenCo's leader Meena has spent years searching out witches hiding in plain sight. Since colonial times, the witches of VenCo have awaited the moment seven magical spoons will come together and ignite a new era, returning women to their rightful power
• With only one more spoon to find, Meena sends Lucky and her grandmother on a dangerous, sometimes hilarious, road trip through the United States in search of the seventh spoon. The trail leads them at last to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where a final showdown will determine whether the coven will be completed, ushering in a new beginning, or whether witches will be forced to remain forever underground
• Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching meets American Horror Story: Coven in this compulsively readable fantasia of adventure, history, Americana, feminism, and magic – VenCo is a novel only the supremely gifted Cherie Dimaline could write