'The boy of autumn, girl of spring Will freedom from this prison bring.' A prophecy. A hideous, cackling face in a mirror. And the awesome power of a sixteenth-century witch who could control the weather itself... Joe and Kerry, sent to stay in the country with their great-aunt, find themselves whirled into the past when they investigate the mystery of an Elizabethan village that escaped destruction by simply vanishing overnight - more than four hundred years ago. But the spell that saved it then has now become a curse...