I curse th' one who stops my heart, t' burn in agony afore his time-that each generation suffer the flames lit here t'night. Only death can stop it!

Superstition, prejudice, jealousy...a lethal combination that saw hundreds of innocent women burned as witches in the Scottish Highlands. The desperate curse uttered in 1727 has pursued Adam MacArthur to the present, and only the strange healing power of a young woman in a mysterious bookshop offers hope. Is the past doomed to repeat itself, or will love create a new future?