Lara and Greg died for the first time in 1645. Their names were Grace and Mark, they were only eighteen, and they had been married for a mere month. A man named Matthew Hopkins was responsible for their deaths. Though if you asked the two of them, they would have told you that a man named Samuel was the reason that they were killed, because it was Samuel who invited Matthew Hopkins to the town of Ipswich in East Anglia during the time of the English Civil War.
It was Samuel, the twenty-five-year-old man that had decided that Grace was to be his wife and nobody else’s, who had accused Grace and Mark of witchcraft. Others had followed with their own stories— none of them true— of how the husband and wife had cursed them and their children with illnesses and plight. Some of those people had
