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Chapters (76)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Also by Karen Brooks
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. EXPLANATORY NOTE
  7. PART ONE
  8. One
  9. Two
  10. Three
  11. Four
  12. Five
  13. Six
  14. Seven
  15. Eight
  16. Nine
  17. Ten
  18. Eleven
  19. Twelve
  20. Thirteen
  21. Fourteen
  22. Fifteen
  23. Sixteen
  24. Seventeen
  25. Eighteen
  26. Nineteen
  27. Twenty
  28. Twenty-One
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. PART TWO
  37. Twenty-Nine
  38. Thirty
  39. Thirty-One
  40. Thirty-Two
  41. Thirty-Three
  42. Thirty-Four
  43. Thirty-Five
  44. PART THREE
  45. Thirty-Six
  46. Thirty-Seven
  47. Thirty-Eight
  48. Thirty-Nine
  49. Forty
  50. Forty-One
  51. Forty-Two
  52. Forty-Three
  53. Forty-Four
  54. Forty-Five
  55. Forty-Six
  56. Forty-Seven
  57. Forty-Eight
  58. Forty-Nine
  59. Fifty
  60. Fifty-One
  61. Fifty-Two
  62. PART FOUR
  63. Fifty-Three
  64. Fifty-Four
  65. Fifty-Five
  66. Fifty-Six
  67. Fifty-Seven
  68. Fifty-Eight
  69. Fifty-Nine
  70. Sixty
  71. Sixty-One
  72. Epilogue: Autumn 1706
  73. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  74. GLOSSARY
  75. LIST OF CHARACTERS
  76. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Colonel Leslie Johns: Captain Ross’s commanding officer and cousin to Earl of Rothes

*Duke of Marlborough: also a general and in charge of the Queen’s army in Europe

*General Overkirk: high-ranking officer in the Queen’s army

*Queen Ann: English monarch at time

Mr Donaldson: Pittenweem local

*Cotton Mather: New England minister and author of many books, including about the Salem witch trials

Callum Gregson: former councilman and mercer

Caitlin Gregson: Callum’s daughter

Brown family: Pittenweem locals

Thom Jack: Margaret’s husband, fisherman and owner of valuable longlines

Gavan Wright: lives near Alexander McGregor

Joanna Browning: Gavin’s wife

*Mr Iain Adam: Isobel’s father (Mr Adam existed, but I have given him a fictional first name)

*Rebecca White: Janet Horseburgh’s daughter with a fictional first name

Billy: Rebecca White’s husband

Cornelia Gurr: fishwife

*Laird Randerston: one of the officials who came from Edinburgh to speak to the accused witches

*Laird Lyon: one of the officials who came from Edinburgh to speak to the accused witches

*Laird Kellie: one of the officials who came from Edinburgh to speak to the accused witches

Mrs Gower: Pittenweem local

Private Smith: soldier

Corporal Inglis: soldier

*Reverend George Gordon: reverend in charge of Leuchar’s parish

Laird Barinscliff: Edinburgh aristocrat with land near Leuchars

Mr Craigieburn: wealthy landowner near Leuchars

Mrs Glaren: George Gordon’s housekeeper

*General Cutts: officer in Queen’s army, stationed in Europe

*General Orkney: officer in Queen’s army, stationed in Europe

*General Churchill: also known as the Duke of Marlborough

Reginald Foggerty: English captain of ship that brings letters from the front

Mr Murray: owns stables near Janet Cornfoot’s house

Clem Brady: Pittenweem local

Jenny Lawson: Nicolas’s sister and friend to Janet Cornfoot

Mimi Foster: cousin to Nicolas and friend to Janet Cornfoot

*Rob Dalzell: one of the locals accused of rousing the town and implicated in death of Janet Cornfoot

*Walter Watson: man from Burntisland implicated in death of Janet Cornfoot

Grayson Fleet: Pittenweem local, implicated in death of Janet Cornfoot

Mr Porter: Pittenweem local

Mrs Lentrow: Pittenweem local

*Mr Borthwick: bailie of Pittenweem

Mr Carter: a bailie of Pittenweem

Jon Durkie: Jean Durkie’s husband

Rachel Mowbray: local lass

*Andrew Bruce: minister Patrick Cowper replaced

*Alexander Griege: former bailie who called Nettie a witch against whom she brought charges of slander

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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