"There are things to fear in this world, but they are not witches and witchcraft, goblins and ghosts, it is the darkness that lurks in the hearts and minds of ordinary men."

Darkbridge Chronicles: Book Three

Callum is an unhappy boy growing up in the nineteenth century in Witch's Harbor, Maine. His days are spent going to school – which he hates. But the worst thing about school is when it ends. Then he has to go home to his abusive father. He dreams of escape... and he knows just how he's going to do it too.

He lives in the old Burrows House which has something very strange in its basement. There's a huge black circle on the wall and if you step through it, it takes you back in time. Callum has used it many times to go back a few hours and get away from his father. One day he will use it to go back a lot further.

Some people already have. Miya and Cass Burrows live in the same house, but eighty years earlier. They originally came from the twenty-first century. They are trying to make a life among the early settlers, but their superstitious neighbours suspect them of witchcraft.

No one is looking for war but, in America's turbulent first century, war comes looking for them. Soon it will release the darkness that lurks in all of them.