Alex Hamilton and his older sister Emma are confronted with a pair of particularly ruthless bullies after starting a new school in Salem, MA. Not only that, their reclusive neighbor is a witch. Not just any witch, but one who claims to be the reincarnation of a man who was tried for the crime in 1692. He tells them how he narrowly escaped hanging by casting a dark spell against his persecutors. Now Alex and Emma are convinced that their only chance against the bullies at school is to master the craft and unlock the secrets of the spell. But magic in the wrong hands can be perilous. And dark...

When Claire Galloway accepts a post as nanny for two-month old Daniel Kensington, she is unprepared for the macabre situation that exists behind the walls of Marchfield Manor. Upon her arrival, she learns the tragic history of a woman named Emily Marchfield Grey, who hanged herself from the parapet a half century ago. The disturbing event still shrouds the Gothic manor in a pervasive gloom and sends Daniel's mother, Lily, down a path as nightmarish as the one that drove Emily to the brink of madness. Beginning with the death of Daniel's twin brother, Lily hears Emily's music box every night...