Six months after the horrific petrol bomb attack that left him sever burned, Detective Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate his future. But all too soon the past darkens his stay there. For the cottage is often visited by the ghostly presence of Kitty Hallam, who was tried as a witch in 1643... With the help of local curate John Rivers and archive librarian Sarah Gordon, Ray slowly pieces together Kitty's tragic tale, play out against the menacing backdrop of the English Civil War. But what Ray cannot even begin to comprehend is the role he himself played in sealing Kitty's fate - more than three hundred years before he was born...