Some secrets lurk in the shadows,
some witches never forget.
On August 5th, 1964, eighteen year old Dorothy Dyer receives the best news of her life: she has been accepted to the prestigious Mistwick Hill Academy of the Arts. With dreams of becoming a painter, Dorothy sets off for the gloomy coastal town of Mistwick Hill, eager to begin her new life.
As the autumn semester passes, Dorothy’s talent deepens, guided by strange dreams and even stranger companions: Imogen Crowley, a sleepless literature student, and Matilda Stonecroft, a history major with an occult fascination. Dorothy even finds herself falling for the local town bookseller, Eric Spencer; and it seems as if her new life couldn’t get any better. All is perfect in Mistwick Hill, until Dorothy begins to find her sketchbook full of drawings she cannot remember creating, and sleepwalking through the misty marsh.
When Dorothy gets accepted to the black book seminar, an invitation only secret society that investigates the arcane, she begins to realize that the history of Mistwick Hill is far darker than she could have imagined. Joined by Imogen and Matilda, Dorothy embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about the old Academy and its foggy marsh.
Dorothy Dyer came to Mistwick Hill to become the greatest artist of her time, but to become who she was always meant to be, she must face the darkness that surrounds the town β and greet the darkness that lives within herself.
