Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them. She is perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her. She tries hard to hide them but can't get them under control....

Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister Brooke - a researcher who has come to investigate the rumours of witchcraft that haunt Three Sisters Island.