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'My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this "Book of Shadows" begins'. In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex has found a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from suffering the same fate. It is the Warlock, Gideon Masters, who will instruct her in the Craft . She could never have foreseen that even now, centuries later, he will be hunting her across time, determined to claim payment for saving her life. As Dr Eliza Hawksmith in Victorian London, as Elise in Passchendaele in 1917, she can find no peace In the present day she begins to believe that the danger might at last have passed. She allows herself to befriend Tegan, a lonely teenager in whom Bess sees a scintilla of magic. In letting down her guard, Bess will be forced to confront Gideon for the final time.