It really is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged being a servant from the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes techniques her with an opportunity-safe passage to America. However the difficult ocean voyage just prospects her to a community of inflexible, fearful grownups who try to decide for her who and what she’ll become. Mary must disguise herself as a pious Puritan girl, hiding her accurate nature, if not face terrible risk once again.

Now that the webpages of Mary’s journal have come to light, discovered in their centuries-old hiding place between the patches of a quilt, listeners may experience what it was like surviving in a society where differences were feared and defiance was deadly.