My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton

She was real. She was rich and beautiful. She was tried as a witch in 1675--and survived. Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman My Enemys Tears: The Witch of Northampton takes us back to life in the Puritan settlements along the Connectict River a terrifying wilderness full of warring natives natural wonders and disasters--portents of Gods anger or a witchs meddling curse. Mary and Sarah grow up amid Puritan superstition and piety busy with their household chores one imagining a life different from her mothers and the other eager to marry and bear sons. They spend their married lives in the villages of Springfield and Northampton where a youthful disagreement festers into a reason to hate and then to fear. As the years pass one accuses the other of murder by witchcraft prompting a trial before the Court of Assistants in Boston--17 years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials. This fictional account of a true story describes two lives in conflict--one cursed and one blessed--and the transcendent power of forgiveness.