Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.
Freedom and justice--American style--are introduced to the Thirty Years War when a cosmic accident lands a portion of rural medieval Europe in Grantsville, West Virginia in the middle of mine worker Mike Stearn's sister's wedding.
