It may have been a ghost that led Eleanor Wilde to set up shop in a quaint English village. But now that shes established herself as the town witch, Ellies contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enoughor gullible enoughto request her mysterious potions Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living. Or at least its Ellies main source of incomeuntil a villager turns up dead. The cause? Murder by poisoning. And though Ellies concoctions dont include anything worthy of a skull and crossbones, suddenly shes the prime suspect. Her only recourse is to find the culprit who did do away with Sarah Blackthorne. No one liked the mean old battle-axe. But did anyone hate her enough to kill her? Its enough of a mystery to make Ellie hang up her witchs hat and take millionaire beau Nicholas Hartford up on his offer to keep her afloat. Except Ellie is not the kind of woman to lean on a manleast of all a man she adores but whose place in her life is uncertain. Besides, Ellies taken on two young witches-in-trainingapprentices if you willand both of them are convinced a werewolf is the murderer. Just as Ellies wondering if there really is something otherworldly going on, animals suddenly begin to disappearincluding her beloved cat, Beast. Now Ellies on the warpath to uncover the wicked truth about the people and the place shes only just begun to call home