The Witches' Mark

In seventeenth-century Scotland, fifteen-year-old Murdo befriends Old Pheemie, an elderly woman everyone calls a witch because she talks to birds and animals. When the feared witch hunter Silas Pow arrives in the East Neuk of Fife, Murdo and his friend Alex must race against time to prove Pheemie's innocence before he can brand her with a witch's mark. The novel mixes historical adventure with the tension of superstition and danger as the boys scramble to uncover the truth and save their friend.