History can be a deadly sin.
Clara Whitmore and her niece Julia have gathered on Wethersfield Green for a reenactment of a seventeenth-century witch trial. The script calls for hysteria and accusations-but not murder. When the actor playing the magistrate collapses during the performance, the specter of the supernatural rises like a specter.
Whispers of witchcraft stir the ghost town of Wethersfield, Connecticut, as Clara unearths a deeper mystery. The victim was not merely an actor in the town's founding history-he was the descendant of one of Wethersfield's original accusers. With only a page of notes and a gathering storm of clues, Clara must unravel a history steeped in ancestral guilt, tangled secrets, and bloodlust.
In a story that winds from candlelit meetinghouses to ancient family curses and hidden graveyards, Clara races to solve a murder-and expose her own family's connection to the past.
History is no secret in Wethersfield, and the sins of the past don't stay buried.