The death of her father is a shock for Stella Bishop. Still reeling, she is cut loose from her moorings and sent to live with her grandmother, a woman with strange habits and even stranger friends. Stella must also choose between the affections of two very different Charlie, kind and generous; and Damian, dark and dangerous. When her mother, presumed dead, reappears, Stella must come to terms with her family’s terrible and twisted past—one intertwined with the Salem witches and some of the darkest days in American history.