As the ninth great-granddaughter of Susannah North Martin, one of the women hanged as a witch in 1692, Salem intrigues me. I didn’t find out I was Susannah’s granddaughter until a few years ago. I wish I had known; I could have so used that in High School!
As an educator, I knew I had to find the truth – there are so many crazy theories floating around. As a family member, I wanted to speak for my grandmother. Her voice was silenced so many years ago. Fortunately, many of her actual words are recorded in archives, handwritten by key witnesses that were at her trial and hanging.
I researched Salem high and low, and what I discovered will amaze you. Every instance involving Susannah in my book, or any of the other victims of the Salem tragedy, are based on those archived primary sources. You will hear their voices in my trilogy, Salem Witch Haunt.
Let me know what you think!
When she finds herself thrust back in time, seventeen-year-old Bess Martin, a senior at Danvers High, sets out on a mission to save her eleventh great-grandmother from the gallows-tree. With a near-perfect knowledge of the historical events about to unfold, Bess knows the untimely fate of many. The problem is that Bess has inherited her grandmother’s sharp tongue—a tongue that caused her grandmother to be tried and hanged as a witch in Salem Village, 1692. Can Bess stop the hangings and change the course of history, or will she share her grandmother’s fate?
Through a series of ill-fated events, Bess Martin finds herself thrust back to Salem in the middle of the Salem witch trials. Last time, her sharp tongue earned her ‘high suspicion of sundry acts of Witchcraft’, and she barely escaped with her life. Will Hezekiah, the brave young man who came through the rift to the future with her three years earlier, follow Bess back to Salem and rescue her before her quick temper decides her fate?
Accused as a witch in Salem 1692, teenage time-traveler, Bess Martin, narrowly escapes back to the twenty-first century. But she accidentally brings friends from Salem with her, including Hezekiah, the handsome young man who has stolen her heart. Warned that time travel was messing with her mind, Bess is reluctant to return again, but wants to help the unwitting travelers. Once back in Salem, she discovers a problem with the timeline she caused and now must fix. Unfortunately, it’s just days before the last of the hangings and the pressing to death of Giles Corey. Knowing she’ll witness the gruesome deaths of the accused, how will she be able to hold her quick tongue and not suffer the same fate as those hanged that horrific day in September?