The year is 1840. Eighteen-year-old Mary Carver is being hunted down by a decomposing witch called Elizabeth while trying to search for her parents. Confused and Scared, with Elizabeth not far behind, Mary meets two seamen who had known her parents, and agrees to help her find them. But Mary doesn't know that the seamen know the witch more than they're letting on. Thrown into a world of magic and monsters, Mary will follow in her parents footsteps to try and defeat the witch. The past is dark and everyone holds dark secrets. Who can be trusted?