In the small English town of Manningtree in 1643, when a newcomer who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General arrives, Rebecca West must quell the rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants to save to save the town's women.

"Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she's inherited from generations of women before her--an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing, but the devil at work. Mary's benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary's patients is found murdered, his body...