Jack St Bride was once a highly respected teacher and soccer coach at a girls' school-until a student's crush sparked a powderkeg of accusations and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. He takes a job washing dished at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside-down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its' own history.
