A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves
between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating
and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch
trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her
summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But
when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's
grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse.
As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family
house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-
century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of
parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane.
This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who
this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular
power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for
lost knowledge.
As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to
fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-
ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more
tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever
imagined.
Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick
Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the
witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of
mystery, intrigue, and revelation.
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