Ellie Blake is dealing with a nervous breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern root base, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction-an outdated drinking water mill in the moorland community of Bridesmoor.

However, there is certainly disquiet in the village. Tanners Dell has a horrible secret, one so well guarded no one speaks its name. But in her seek out meaning, Ellie is certainly attracted to traditional witchcraft and decided to pursue it. All her life she has been cowed. All her life she has apologized on her behalf very life. And witchcraft offers opened a door she could never have dreamed. Imbued with power and overawed with its magick, for the first time she feels she’s come home, truly knows who she is.

Tanners Dell, though, using its centuries-old demonic background . well, it’s an unhealthy place for the novice.