Abigail Hobbs is 17. She lives in Salem. Tomorrow, she and 20 other young women accused of witchcraft will be hung from the scaffold.

"My name is Abigail Hobbs. I am 17 years old. I live in Salem, a town of 600 people. I am writing you today for tomorrow I will be dead. I and 20 other young women from my town will be hung for being witches."
The scene: a small village in 17th-century Puritan America. This is the story of Abigail Hobbs, of life in the Massachusetts Bay colony, the nearby indigenous peoples, a struggle for survival, and the coercions brought to bear upon young women by a merciless patriarchy of religious fanatics.