The Witches of Cambridge

In Maine, a heartbroken Ava Abbot searches her family home for answers about her past. In the cellar, she discovers a hidden suitcase containing photographs of a young man named Chris and a woman labeled “the witch.” The local general store owner, Mrs. Petrie, identifies Chris as the son of the couple who raised Ava, explaining that he died tragically and that Ava arrived shortly after as his “replacement.” A 1936 obituary confirms that Christopher Abbot died in a car crash at age 24, survived by a wife and child. After finding his grave in the town cemetery, Ava confronts Jeanne Abbot, the woman she believed was her mother, and confirms that she is actually her grandmother. Christopher Abbot was Ava’s father. Realizing her entire life has been a lie, Ava leaves Maine for good, hitchhiking back to Cambridge.

Ava returns to an almost-empty Lilith House and tells her friends Lauren and Lionel Bell that her grandparents “stole” her. With Lionel, she visits a retired music teacher, Charles McClary, who remembers her father, Christopher, as a brilliant musician. McClary plays a piece Christopher composed titled “The First Witch of Cambridge,” written in honor of one of his wife’s ancestors.