As late summer steals in & the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders
- two men & a dangerously magnetic woman
- arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk`s village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke & fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, & allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter`s story, & he will be the only man left to tell it.. .