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Salem Massachusetts 1692 Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England As a Quaker hes outnumbered and distrusted by Salems Puritans And as an orphan without any useful skills he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep In a stroke of luckperhaps good perhaps nothes taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins whos rumored to be a witch Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritanobedient to God and to her eldersand all her life she has come up short But her orderly world is upended when her younger sister Abigail falls victim to a mysterious affliction The same torments have stricken other Salem girls who claim theyre being bewitched by servants of the Devil Soon the girls including Abigail begin accusing neighbors of witchcraft As the community becomes consumed by suspicion and fear Thomas and Patience search for the truth To protect those they care about they will have to question everything they think they know their faiths their loyalties and their places in Salem