Death has come to town.
New England, 1821 -Hester Stokely, an orphan with unusual abilities, struggles to find her place in the pious town of Wickstead.
A house-servant in the employ of her uncle's upright family, Hester is treated as little more than a pariah by the judgmental townsfolk.
When a deadly plague comes to town, Hester becomes indispensable as a healer.
Yet as Hester watches the town's residents rapidly fall ill, she realizes that something mo.
