The Red Witch

By Serena Devlin

Three hundred years ago, the pirate Jamie O'Roarke was hanged on Salem's Gallows Hill. The men who put the noose around his neck were ancestors of Rebecca Love. Red haired Rebecca is the last of the Love family. The ghost of Jamie O'Roarke, seeking vengeance, kidnaps Rebecca, and takes her back through time to the Salem of 1695, a time when witches, pirates and wood nymphs roamed freely along the New England coast.Rebecca's friends, led by Peter Hawkings, Ian MacRae, the handsome Scotsman, and the lively tree nymph, Eva, follow her back through time. Eva has told them that they have enough power to go into the past but only O'Roarke can help them return to the present.They manage to find Rebecca, but not before she and O'Roarke have become lovers. They watch in horror as O'Roarke is captured, tried as a pirate and sentenced to hang. Peter, Rebecca, Eva and Ian set out to free O'Roarke so they can return to Salem, 1999.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893221040
• ISBN13: 9781893221048
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Pendleton Books
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

Witches, Pirates and Ghosts

The ghost of Jamie O'Roarke, a dashing pirate trapped inside an oak tree in the Old Burial Ground in Salem, Mass. is released from his wooden prison by a bolt of lightening on Old Hallows Eve. Unbeknown to Rebecca Love, the lovely young assistant to Peter Hawking,(who is holding a seance in the cemetery), O'Roarke has been waiting three hundred years to get revenge on the Love family. It seems Rebecca Love's ancesters were responsible for O'Roarke being hanged. O'Roarke tricks Rebecca into going with him back to the Salem of 1692. What follows is a wonderful story of intrigue, humor and suspense told by an author who has throughly researched her subject. This entertaining novel is not only wonderfully written, it is informative and historically accurate. I highly recommend this book. It's a real page turner.

A marvelous read

Serena Devlin has woven a tale of adventure, time travel and romance set in modern day Salem, Massachusetts and the Salem of 1692. Her marvelous descriptions of her characters and of the settings in her novel remind me of the type of attentiion to detail that made Ernest Hemingway so famous. If anyone is expecting a book about Wiccans, they'll be sadly disappointed. This novel is an adventurous romp with great characters such as Jamie O'Roarke, a pirate trapped inside an oak tree for three hundred years, freed by a bolt of lightening on Old Hallows Eve that splits the tree in two. Devlin brings to life the Salem of 1692 by her use of dialect that would have been spoken by persons living in Salem at that time. I highly recommend this book for any person age fifteen or older. (I'm an adult and I throughly enjoyed it) Theodore Windsor, history teacher (10th grade)