New York: Hyperion / Voice, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one that moves between the present and the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s. "When her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house. She discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible, a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane - and this 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." Author's postscript. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp. Illustrated endpapers.,. ISBN: 978-1401340902.