Danver, a young judge, travels on behalf of the King of France to one of the provinces to check incoming reports about the excessive zeal of his fellow professionals in trials related to witchcraft. The multiplying fires throughout France and the growing discontent of the subjects worried the Royal Court. So the young judge settles in Mirange, a small town full of secrets, where the president of the court, de La Barelle, rules arbitrarily. Danver is present at the trials and interrogations and unexpectedly falls in love with an unusual, beautiful woman accused of murdering her husband and witchcraft. Elisabeth Motsch is not just writing a historical novel. This is a subtle love-psychological drama with detective elements and magnificent poetic descriptions of seventeenth-century Burgundy.