Books by Kate Taylor

Clotho is the goddess of time and fate. She has bestowed her cruel demonic kiss of eternal life on two friends.Many would presume the kiss a gift. The two friends know differently. The Kiss of Clotho is a curse. Eugenie, born in 1814, has lost husbands, lovers, a child and dear friends as her age never changes. Sarah, born in 1979, senses the horror of it.Mark, Sarah?s husband, has been brought into the wild fray. They will try anything. They follow dreams, attempt to locate the goddesses? temple, delve into Eugenie?s past in 1863. They explore stick-pin dolls, curse reversals, mirror reflections, consecrations and purification. Abject failure is all they find to remove the curse.Clotho watches without concern.

A novel that brings together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders.