"Hear ye, all who would cherish their Souls: beyond this point dwell Foul perils, both Seen and Unseen." - From a weathered sign posted along the roads leading north from Boston in 1736.The demons and the witches that once terrorized the dark landscape of colonial Massachusetts are eighty years banished-yet a shadow lingers in the abandoned town of Salem.When that malignant power is disturbed, it sets loose a rising tide of black magick and demons that threatens to overtake the entire colony. For eighteen-year-old Cate Allen-a brash, impulsive half-witch-stopping the shadowrise means mastering the witchcraft that's always eluded her, or seeing the last of her people perish. In this first volume of the dark fantasy trilogy The Demons of Salem, Ken Davis brings us into an unsettling and riveting world where sorcery, witchcraft, and 18th century technology collide with politics, betrayal, and the siren lure of power.