When Skye Temple buys a historic house in Salem, Massachusetts, the witch capital of the world, she ignites events that began centuries ago during the witch trials. Salem's bloody history unfolds with her discovery of ancestral diaries and the murders of local girls. During all this, she also struggles with her attraction to Jerome Phips, a local police officer bent on uncovering the truth of his mother's disappearance during a ritual gone wrong 30 years earlier.