Australian musician Lisa Sheehan has got life sussed. Her relationship with lead guitarist Brad is how she likes it (platonic), and her rock band - 747 - is on the up. Then, one by one, her fans start to turn up dead in the forest outside town, their bodies hideously mutilated, and her sleep becomes haunted by disturbing dreams and memories that aren't her own.
Can the murders in Lisa's twentieth-century life be linked to events in Elizabethan England? To a web of sorcery and betrayal spanning nearly four hundred years? Lisa embarks on a series of regressions which reveal that she was once the unmarried niece of a 17th century squire - a beautiful woman whose passion for knowledge and familiarity with herbs made some call her a doctor, others a witch. Caught in a terrifying spiral of violence and erotic obsession, Lisa must come to terms with the unholy pact she and her lover once made with the most infernal power of all...