Kit Tyler is a free-spirited teenager who leaves her sunny Caribbean home to live with her strict Puritan relatives in the cold, gray Connecticut Colony in 1687. Feeling trapped and lonely, she finds friendship with an old Quaker woman, Hannah Tupper, who lives alone by the meadows and is rumored to be a witch. When Kit's kindness and different ways clash with the fearful Puritan community, she is accused of witchcraft herself. The story is a thrilling adventure about finding your place, the courage to be different, and the power of friendship against prejudice.