Set in the islands and mountains of 18th century New England, this is a tale of wilderness adventure, murder, mystery, mysticism, and romance--of the power of the past, of dreams, and of a curse imposed by an ancient priest of Baal upon anyone who possesses the bronze amulet. The young minister Jonathan Tucker (Tuck), fisherman's daughter Elizabeth Norton (Etsy), and mysterious recluse Matthew Randolph, discover that it often takes the remarkable and extra- ordinary to peal open the surface experiences, to plunge within to the cold, dark depths, to find what is true, to find the self.