Hearts Strange and Dreadful

Death has come to town.New England 1821-Hester Stokely an orphan with unusual abilities struggles to find her place in the pious town of Wickstead. A house-servant in the employ of her uncles upright family Hester is treated as little more than a pariah by the judgmental townsfolk. When a deadly plague comes to town Hester becomes indispensable as a healer. Yet as Hester watches the towns residents rapidly fall ill she realizes that something more dangerous than disease has come to Wickstead. Soon the buried dead are exhumed on rumor of superstition and occult fires burn fiercely into the night. As the townspeople turn on each other a mysterious traveler arrives furthering the growing paranoia. Hester must confront the dark forces which have invaded Wickstead or all who live there may be lost... their souls included.