Memory and Desire

Claire came to the English village to find her best friend, Melinda, who’d vanished after performing in a play which re-creates a seventeenth-century witchcraft trial.

What she found was a murder mystery—and a man. A man who, like her, is trapped between memory and desire.

The play takes place at the manor house where the protagonists lived and died, a house where the past is still a haunting presence. Did Melinda ask too many questions about the village’s tragic history? To find her, Claire...