D. A. CLARKE

This tragic story follows the beautiful, young and affluent Hannah that becomes a witch in the latter part of seventeenth century England. How she is forced to flee the village she grew up in to save her life after she is suspected of the death of her husband and his mistress and of witchcraft. She relocates to an abandoned cottage in the middle of a dense forest with her familiar and becomes a most proficient and powerful witch. Eventually after many years of seclusion, advanced in years, she is found out by a nearby village that suspects her of the murder of a child and of being a witch. She is captured tried and executed but this is only the beginning of a generational curse that Hannah casts upon the executioner and his descendants reaching hundreds of years and many generations of the Clarke family. Not to mention her wrath that is pored out on the village that had her killed.

The story continues into the future where Dennis Clarke upon clearing out his recently deceased grandparents’ attic to prepare the home to be sold, finds the Clarke Family Journal. Upon reading the accounts of his ancestors and the horrible deaths that many of them succumbed to explained in detailed substories in the book comes to the realization that a witches’ curse is to blame. His plan to somehow end the curse only enrages the powerful spirit of the witch causing things to spiral out of control making Dennis wish he had never discovered the journal and that he had never been born.