Five friends, a sweltering summer and a village that has a lot of secrets to hide. When Ellie and her friends want to join a group in her native village that practices modern witchcraft, she is the only one who is not accepted. It turns out that the group is hiding some dark secrets that are intertwined with her family past. Secrets they want to protect at all costs. And then there is also Eric, an irresistibly mysterious boy with a dark character… Together with her friends, Ellie gets involved in unusual adventures. Their village with the wooded slopes and wild flower fields suddenly seems no longer so innocent.Alison Woods grew up in the countryside in a family of eight children. In the midst of nature, the warm parental nest and the pets, she was given plenty of opportunity to fantasize and invent stories. She did not lose that. Today you can usually find her with a pen in her hair and a book in her hand.