Witch Hunt

Sad interesting story. Good character development. Oh, but the grammar and punctuation!!! So bad. Needs better editing.

Sadie’s relentless pursuit into the mysterious realm of the Essex witch hunts in England will have an intimate and profound impact on her.
When her mother passes away, she is inundated with terrifying visions and haunting events that seem impossible to be imagined. As she delves deeper into the past and learns more about the General Witchfinder, Matthew Hopkins, she is contacted by one of his victims Rebecca. A 15 year old girl who he would torture and rape and have her testify that her mother was a witch. Her mother was hung while she was forced to witness it and will later give birth to a daughter that Matthew Hopkins takes from her and he disappears to America. Rebecca in duress takes her own life upon learning her daughter’s whereabouts is lost forever to her.
Sadie learns that upon reaching America’s shores the witch hunts that happened in Essex county of Massachusetts and parts of Connecticut were because the Witchfinder had continued his evils against women and those who weren’t able to find support from anyone in their community. He preyed on the vulnerable and weak and enjoyed his torture and killing of hundreds of innocent women, some men as well as children. This is an enormous historical finding and she is so excited to share this news with her new editor, Felix. Unfortunately she has received a contract through a company in which one of the most corrupt and powerful men of England owns. Before her mothers death she had tried to plead with Sadie to turn down the contract and stay away from Robert Cutt never giving her any reason other than she’d had a deep hatred for him for as long as Sadie had remembered and she assumed it was because he was such a despicable man. He had currently been getting horribly poor allegations against his character at a time when he was getting ready to be given a prestigious political position and was doing everything in his power ro make all the bad press and the complaints and misdeeds he’d done go away by any means necessary.
As Sadie starts to notice she’s being followed by a black car, her home is also broken into and absolutely destroyed but the only thing missing is her case files she has been compiling about the Witchfinder and his victims.
Dan, her mothers partner, who also has been diagnosed with a mental illness as her mothers partner was also diagnosed with depression but had also been known to hallucinate things and people that weren’t there and claimed to have an inner dialogue with a woman she referred to as Rebecca, Dan tells Sadie. Sadie is chilled to the bone because she can remember her mother telling her that they were descendants of one of the victims of the Witchfinder and that was what had piqued her curiosity into the past to begin with.
Dan also reveals that her mother had warned him she would be in danger and he had to protect her. That someone was coming for her. Sadie also finds a birth certificate in her mother’s jewelry box that reveals her real name was Mercy and the name of father was blank on her birth certificate. She confronts the man she’s believed to be her father and he confirms that she was not his biological child but he’s her Dad and she’s his daughter in all the ways it matters. He explains that he had nearly hit her mother and the carriage she was pushing across the road late one night. He said her mother was exhausted, emaciated and Mercy, the baby was tiny and malnourished. They marry a year later, Rose insisted they obtain an illegal birth certificate with Mercy’s name changed to Mercedes Alquist and refused to ever divulge her fear and demands they never tell Sadie.
She was able to identify her own relation to Rebecca and knew that Felix was being truthful when offered her money and a new passport and gave her the opportunity to disappear and never resurface. When she refused he pulled out his gun and only one of them walked away. I’ve given so many spoilers already I will leave the last for those who read it.
Great character structure and the plot was insanely brilliant!!!