Now: When Adrianna arrives at the small run-down cottage near the sea in rural Norfolk she can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Here she can forget her life in the city and the problems she's left behind there at least for a while. But - like Adrianna herself - the cottage holds secrets. And when Adrianna finds a mysterious bundle of notes hidden under a floorboard she can't shake the idea that they've been waiting for her. Especially when - in the rambling overgrown garden - she then finds a strangely-carved stone drawing her into a centuries-old mystery. . . 1645: Between her work as the village midwife and the medicines she sells from her cottage Ursula has no need for a man. But this ideal leaves her unprotected in a world where just one accusation of witchcraft can mean certain death. So when she catches the eye of a powerful new local doctor she must use every part of her cunning or risk becoming his prisoner. . . Can the two women - their paths bound by place and history - each find the keys to their own destiny?
