This discovery launches Connie on a quest— to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.

As she begins to discover the pieces of Deliverance’s harrowing story, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials.

Carolyn See in The Washington Post wrote, "This charming novel is both a tale of New England grad-student life in 1991 and the Salem witch hunts in 1692.

[4] Emma Carbone for the New York Public Library wrote: "...[the book] has a lot of appeal for a variety of readers.

It is also a gripping story with a very interesting plot....Howe has created a fascinating commentary on one of America's most compelling and most infamous periods in history with this debut novel.