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 found himself a true witch. As Bess Hawksmith watched her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knew only one man could save her from the same fate: the warlock Gideon Masters. What she could not have foreseen was that even now, centuries later, he would pursue her determined to claim payment for saving her life.