In the year 1695, in the shadow of the Salem witch trials, nineteen-year-old Augusta Penn arrives in the haunted town of Swampscott. The daughter of the new reverend, she longs for solitude, sketching plants in the forest and hiding from the whispers of suspicious townsfolk. But when she crosses paths with the mysterious and wounded Captain Nathaniel Winslow, a soldier scarred by war and secrets, Augusta finds herself pulled into a dangerous web of forbidden attraction, gothic mystery, and eerie superstition. As shadows move in the forest, secrets rise from the graves, and whispers of witchcraft spread once more, Augusta must decide who she can trust-before the darkness claims her heart, her soul, and perhaps her life.