Fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather has moved to Salem, Massachusetts. Sam and her stepmother are not exactly welcomed with open arms. Sam is the descendant of Cotton Mather, one of the men responsible for those witch trials and almost immediately she becomes the enemy of a group of girls who call themselves The Descendants. Sam also comes face to face with a real ghost. Soon she discovers she is at the center of a centuries old curse affecting anyone...

Harvard graduate student Connie Godwin is determination personified. She will get her doctorate and find success as a historian, whether her aura-reading mother understands her bookishness or not. But first she has to contend with her tweedy adviser{u2019}s oddly urgent demands and her late grandmother{u2019}s incredibly old, long-abandoned house in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The house is cloaked in vines and stuffed with dusty old bottles and books,...

Vividly portraying the forces that shaped our early American history, Book 2 in the House of Winslow series takes the dynamic story of the Winslow family beyond the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth to the Salem witch trials.