For those adept at mentally leapfrogging through time and place, this book is for you. The story of Cauldron of Anastasis includes scenes in Bucharest in the 1930s, Providence, Rhode Island in 1935, London in the 1990s, and the Underworld realm of Belial. The action shifts back and forth, from one era to another, as layers of the story build up. In this last volume of the five-book The Blood and the Seed series, the plot centers around seven macabre paintings and five manuscripts that hold clues to the cataclysm about to befall the world. The main character is Morgaine Lefey (le Fay), of Arthurian legends, who is portrayed with an unprecedented twist: no mere sorceress, she’s actually a demon who’s lived through the ages by possessing women’s bodies and living their lives. She says that true love is the enemy of magic, and as her ambitions grow, she lives most of her life without love, because her magic is supremely important. She also distinguishes between “born-magic” and acquired abilities; she possesses quantities of both.