A city gripped by dread. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can conserve Pale Harbor from itself?

Maine, 1846. Gabriel Rock is desperate to escape the spirits that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s loss of life, so he techniques to Maine, taking a position being a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor.

But not all is as it appears in the sleepy city. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, as well as the townspeople declare that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive about The Widow of Pale Harbor widow who lives using a spinster maid in the eerie Castle Carver. Sophronia must be a witch, and she probably killed her husband.

As the incidents escalate, one thing becomes very clear: they will be the work of the twisted person inspired by the wildly popular tales of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. And Gabriel must find answers, or Pale Harbor are affected a fate worth Poe’s darkest stories.

Hester Fox comes to composing from a background in the museum field as a choices maintenance technician. This job provides taken her from historic houses to fine art museums, where she’s the privilege of washing and looking after selections that range between paintings by old masters to historic artifacts to early-American home furniture. She is a keen painter and has a master’s degree in traditional archaeology, and a background in middle ages studies and art history. Hester lives outside Boston with her husband.