Hour of the Witch

By: Chris Bohjalian

boston, 1662. mary deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in england she might have had many suitors. but here in the new world, amid this community of saints, mary is the second wife of thomas deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. when thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of mary's hand, she resolves that she...