Margaret didn't think she'd ever return to Louisiana, especially not with her teenage daughter. But because of a pact she made with her childhood friends she once called sisters, she had to go back to Belles Parish. The past haunted and mocked her the moment she stepped foot on the Abel Plantation. Secrets and mysteries hung in the air like Spanish moss, and it even began to creep up on her daughter, Jane. Jane had always known her mother was hiding something from her, but she didn't know exactly what it was until she arrived in the small town. Gossip was common in the South, but Jane almost didn't believe the crude rumors of witchcraft. Margaret tried to keep Jane safe from the strange and unusual world she lived in, but no matter how hard she tried, the truth was bound to surface.