A tenure-track professor in Boston, Connie Goodwin is an expert on America's fractured past with witchcraft. Her focus is the history of magic in colonial America, especially women's home recipes and medicines. And she is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows. When Connie to the shocking realization that her partner's life is in danger, she must solve the mystery behind a hundreds'-years-long deadly curse to save him. -- adapted from back cover
