Maggie Corey is starting her life over after her marriage and professional life both imploded from personal betrayal. She’s come to Hope’s Crossing for a second chance managing her aunt’s herb shop. But all is not as it seems in this small, Massachusetts mountain town. Maggie has walked into the midst of a generational feud between survivors of the Salem Witch Trials, and a deadly enemy with a long-standing grudge. Unfortunately for Maggie, whoever it is seems determined to drive her back out of town by any means necessary–including framing her for crimes she didn’t commit.

Summer heat has now gripped Hope’s Crossing, and an unexpected drought has raised the local fire danger so much that Maggie is tempted to summon some rain to lower it. She has come to realize that her true enemy in town is the Reverend, who is in fact a witch himself and has been hiding it behind a veneer of anti-witchcraft Christian respectability. But he may be too powerful and well-placed for her to touch…unless she can expose him as a witch to his flock, whom he’s stirred up with anti-witch sentiment for decades.

Continuing to learn more witchcraft from Bramble, the family cat familiar, Maggie is working to finish reading her aunt’s written history of the town, which now no longer looks like fiction to her more experienced eyes. She has started going on regular dates with the Sheriff, as well as spending more time with his curious daughter. Sales are picking up thanks to tourists coming through, and her garden is flourishing. But of course, the Reverend just won’t leave well enough alone–and this time, he’s determined to end Maggie before she can successfully expose him.

This time, his choice of would-be assassins is going to put all of Hope’s Crossing in danger: a pyromaniac young witch with secret ties to the Reverend and a dangerous amount of power. This time, either Maggie ends the threat posed by the Reverend and his young protege, or Hope’s Crossing may burn, and her new life with it.