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Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene have been called to Exmouth- a small town on the wild Atlantic coast of Massachusetts- to investigate a seemingly innocuous theft. But what they discover at the crime scene changes the course of their investigation: a sealed burial chamber- complete with rusted leg irons- fragments of bone and claw marks on the inside-face of its bricks. Then a historian is found murdered in the desolate salt marshes that surround the town- his face mutilated- his body carved with arcane symbols. Exmouth has a grim history dating back to the aftermath of the Salem witch trials. And now a dark secret- centuries old- is rising to the surface....