Because she was lively, amorous and beautiful, Elspet Malcolm was condemned to death as a witch in the small, pious, life-hating village of Kinskerchan in Lowland Scotland.

It would have been better if she had died without issue... better for the inhabitants of Kinskerchan. But she left a son and a daughter, who swore a terrible revenge.

And there was only one end to that revenge. The total destruction, by individual and diabolical means, of all those who had condemned their mother to a witch's death by burning...