She was real.
This fictional account of a true story describes two lives in conflict--one cursed and one blessed--and the transcendent power of forgiveness..
As the years pass, one accuses the other of murder by witchcraft, prompting a trial before the Court of Assistants in Boston--17 years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials.
They spend their married lives in the villages of Springfield and Northampton, where a youthful disagreement festers into a reason to hate and then to fear.
Mary and Sarah grow up amid Puritan superstition and piety, busy with their household chores, one imagining a life different from her mother\'s and the other eager to marry and bear sons.
Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy\'s Tears: The Witch of Northampton , takes us back to life in the Puritan settlements along the Connectict River, a terrifying wilderness full of warring natives, natural wonders and disasters--portents of God\'s anger or a witch\'s meddling curse.
She was tried as a Witch in 1675--and survived.
She was rich and beautiful.
She was real
