1790s, Maine.
What is the truth behind Hortense's disappearance, and who is responsible for the death of the Shaker Sister?.
Witnesses describe a man fitting Josiah Wooten's description, a ferocious man living in the woods with two young sons.
As the arrangements are made she is hidden in Zion, the local Shaker community, only while there a Shaker Sister is murdered.
It is agreed Hortense's presence is endangering everyone's safety and she needs to leave. but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. . .
After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting Rees's own family - she is questioned further and claims she was kidnapped .
During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat.
In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. 1790s, Maine
