She was alone... 1664-1666: years of plague, fire and superstition. Katharine Gurney is the daughter of an executed witch, a shepherdess with latent powers. And then he came... Francois Borri is a cunning man, an apostatized priest turned sorcerer, who seeks to use her as he has used others before in his brutal quest for wealth and status. The Witch is a tale of murder and manipulation; a story of cruel domination and ultimate vengeance. It is the account of one woman's struggle for survival in a world which executed nine million women as witches ... and of the man...