"Daughters of theWitching Hill" brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt.Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman. Dr[...]
Raised by a father who secretly trained her in the physician's art, Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister, married off to a distant cousin after a series of sexual improprieties, and falls in love with her brother-in-law despite her feeling that he is [...]