Supernatural/lesbian/historical/romance/fiction Set in 1761 Victoria Nathan - victim of a brutish, drunken husband is near despair when she is told of a healing woman called Sera Kane, who operates a small shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Her companion is Micheline, her familiar, a black cat that communicates telepathically. The two women begin to fall in love with each other and Victoria soon discovers Sera is a practitioner of more than merely the arts of healing; she is a witch.