The Devil is loose in the New World.

In the Autumn of 1645, Mary Johnson boarded a ship in Portsmouth, England sailing to the New World. Mary would exchange seven years of her young life as an indentured servant for the price of the passage across the Atlantic. But she believed the bargain to be a fair trade for a new life, free from the lower class restraints of the Old World in which she was born.

Mary was barely twenty and unmarried when she arrived in the settlement of Wethersfield, Connecticut, her future still ahead of her, her fate yet unwritten. But fate would thrust her and thirty-three others into the very maelstrom of the New World’s first witch hunt hysteria.

This is the story of one of America’s earliest witch hunts. Nearly 50 years before the tragedy of the Salem witch trials, the people of colonial Connecticut would face a crucible of their own. Theirs is a little known story, rarely told.