The story starts off when Jack St.Bride, a popular teacher at a private girls' school was unfairly accused of rape which sparked from a student's crush. He had lost in job and reputation, and after, a public ordeal that left him serving an eight-month jail sentence and no job. Jack strives to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and he arrives in a small town - Salem Falls, where he hopes to turn over a new leaf. He takes up a job at Addie Peabody's diner, and a relationship between them starts to form in this quiet, secluded town. Just as Jack thought that he has successfully rubbed away the remains of his devastating past, a group of teenage girls who harbor the darkest secrets of witchcraft have formulated a plan to maliciously target Jack with an allegation. However, all the evidence shows that it is flaringly obvious that Jack is the culprit, but he is forced to declare his innocence to a whole town who are seeking for answers, a justice system, where the truth is almost blurry and cannot be seen, and to the woman that he loves. Yet, in the end, Jack his pronounced not guilty and it is revealed that the girls have been the ones twisting the truth and framing Jack for his inappropriate sexual abuse that he wasn't responsible for. The story ends with the cliqued happy ending - when everything that has been devastatingly broken gets fixed, and Addie & Jack get to be with each in the end despite the tough times that they have faced.
I definitely enjoyed reading this book as its unique and original; it was indeed one that i couldn't put down as there's a twist of fate on every page; a revelation. It was also genuinely suspenseful and it is a mixture of romance, mystery, spookiness, heartbreaks - and all these traits make this book a really great novel.
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