Bestselling author Joyce Regent flees London to her ancestor’s cottage in Bridgetown after a toy-boy scandal leaves her reputation in tatters.

But her troubles are just beginning.

The cottage was the home of Isobel Perkins, who was burned as a witch almost four hundred years ago. As the flames licked her body, Isobel screamed a curse at the mob of locals.

Joyce’s move to the cottage sparks fear in the community. She receives poison pen letters and a dead cat is impaled on her front door with a large kitchen knife. A message reading “next it’s you” is pinned beside it.

When something terrible happens to Joyce, Detective Jim Ashworth is called in.

He doesn’t believe in curses and witches. But he’ll soon be on the trail of a killer.