It's Halloween, and Diana Crossways is more interested in getting to her coven meeting than in staying late to close up Witch Hunt, her Salem, Massachusetts occult bookstore. Besides, there's a big thunderstorm brewing, and she'd like to get to the covenstead before it breaks. Unfortunately, a special messenger has just delivered a rare book for restoration, and Diana wants to get it unpacked and take a quick look at it before leaving. She discovers the book is an ancient handwritten volume, nearly falling apart, but just as she begins to look at it, there is a violent crack of thunder and all the lights in the store go out. The storm gets worse and Diana is driven from the workroom clutching the book only to find herself outdoors on a starlit summer night in a strange wooded landscape. Twentieth-Century Salem has vanished. 1647 England isn't a good place to be a Witch. Even if you're about to meet the man of your dreams...