Fiction by Jan Siegel

A compilation of three of her books; Prospero's Children, The Dragon Charmer, and The Witch Queen.  Overall theme is about a girl growing into womanhood with The Gift, who finds herself in deadly combat with demons. "I sometimes think mankind is dangerously arrogant. We do a few sums, and then claim we have the universe off pat. We measure the spaces between the stars, and declare them empty. We set a limit on infinity. We are like the occupants of a closed room; having worked out everything within the range of our knowledge, we announce that the room and its contents are all that exists. Nothing beyond. Nothing unseen or unknown, incalculable or ineffable. This is it. And then every so often God lifts the veil--twitches the curtain--and gives us a glimpse, just a glimpse, of something more. As if He wishes to show us  how narrow is our vision, how meaningless the boundaries we have set for ourselves."  (page 113).  Very well written, almost in Gothic style.