Will Connor returns to his hometown, a village north of Boston, to care for his injured mother. Heâs kept his distance from the town since high school, but once home he finds himself reexamining a horrific incident that took place during one of his motherâs âspirit circles.â His mother had embraced the hippie generationâs fascination with New Age and the arcane, but the unexpected death of a close friend put an end to the meetings of the modern-day coven. Or did it? As Will looks deeper into his familyâs history he discovers that her practices werenât so much a passing fad but the latest link in a long tradition of New England witchcraft, which still seems to hold a strange power over the town. Will hopes that unearthing the facts about the death will put his questions to rest, but there are those willing to resort to violence to keep those secrets buried.