But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America-especially women’s home recipes and medicines-and by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curseĬonnie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft.
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