Kiss of the Flame

This harrowing tale begins with Evangeline Jarrard and the other women in her family, who serve as healers and midwives in their small seaside community. Unfortunately, this noble calling comes at a grave personal risk as each of the Jarrard ladies become entangled in a web of deceit mistakenly believed to be for the greater good.

Sebastian Debalore, a young doctor haunted by his past, finds himself forced into an engagement with Miss Evangeline by a tyrannical father. But just as their love begins to bloom, things quickly sour between Evangeline and Sebastian as long-held secrets from both the living and the dead become known.

Once these skeletons are unearthed, there is no going back. Neighbors begin to turn on one another. Hurling accusations of witchcraft that destine many of the Jarrard women to terrible endings. Some of them by drowning, others by rope, and the most unfortunate ones by fire.