The Witches of Cambridge

Ava arrives at Radcliffe College in the 1950s from a small town in Maine, a bright first-year student in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her roommate Lauren is her opposite: wild and brazen, the daughter of a wealthy, long-established Cambridge family.

Both young women are recruited into the Lilith Society, a secret group of witches at Radcliffe whose roots go back to colonial times. The society takes its name from Lilith, Adam's first wife, banished for refusing to obey. Its members meet in memory of women drowned in the river during the Puritan era.

As Ava and Lauren learn about this inheritance, they also learn to handle new power, friendship and love. Their bond grows close, and it is tested along the way. The novel opens a new series by the writer of Practical Magic.

Radcliffe feels like a safe place, yet McCarthyism casts a constant shadow over the creative and intellectual life of the city. Then girls from the Lilith Society begin to vanish. Ava and Lauren start to suspect that the old witch trials are not as far in the past as Cambridge likes to believe.