For Lisa Crandall the onset of adolescence brought with it the fiery dreams that challenge her sanity. Night after night she watches the flesh burn off her own body in an emerging tale of a young woman burned as a witch. Offered a teaching position on the East Coast Lisa and brother Carter, move cross-country to search for the cause of the dreams. In Anderson's Landing she literally runs into one of the School Board in the person of Michael Adams. On a quest of his own, they join forces and seek out the evil that has plagued Maple Ridge Township for three hundred years.