‘You can’t make alliances with witches and suchlike and desire to you shouldn’t be drawn toward the dark.’

As the Spook’s apprentice, Thomas Ward’s first duty is to protect the County from spirits, boggarts, and other dangerous creatures. However now his mother has come back from her homeland to get his help. One of the most harmful of the aged witches, Ordeen, is going to return to globe, getting with her struggling and devastation. Tom’s mother has mustered a powerful army-including Tom’s friend Alice, the Pendle witches, and the assassin Grimalkin-to confront Ordeen. If Tom joins them, the Spook will won’t take Tom back again as his apprentice. What sacrifices will be made in the fight against the dark?