Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin is planning on spending the summer researching from her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, MA, as she helps her mother handle the sale. But the more she learns about the family house, the more obsessed she becomes with unraveling its many mysteries. She finds an ancient key hidden in a 17th-century Bible, which contains a yellowing parchment with the name "Deliverance Dane" scawled on it. As she investigates who this woman is, she discovers a physick book and learns more about Salem's dark past during the witch trials of the 1690s. Katherine Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is a gripping tale that combines past and present in a unique way.