The lady or the fox... Sutters Hamlet, North Carolina - an ideal place for Joanna Crawford, a harried New Yorker, to recharge her energies and do some serious painting in the old backwoods cabin she had rented. But wasn't it strange that the villagers were so unreasonable hostile, that there was all this talk about witches and witchcraft? Even the one friend she was able to make, himself an "outsider," wrote books on legends and folklore. Overriding her terror was the sickening realization that the villagers believed her to be the daughter of the fox-witch, and that they planned to kill her. And the only way Joanna could escape from their mass insanity would prove that she was indeed a witch.