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Raith is your average sixteen-year-old boy living in a modern-day LDS family home. Then one day with no fanfare at all, his father adds two women and seven children to the household. He tells Raith that they are extended family that he has decided to help out. Well, they are family, just not quite in the way he explained it to Raith. Unbeknown to Raith, his father was a member of a branch of the LDS sect of Secret Wives. One of the wives was about Raith's age, while the other was a bit older than his own mom. Raith's mother, Grace, held the title of First Wife. With all of the new additions to the household, the family begins to fall apart. Things worsen even more when Stephen announces that his company is laying him off due to bankruptcy. Raith's Dad begins looking around for a new job and stumbles on a job harvesting logs from the swamps in Mississippi. A quick family meeting later the decision to make the move to the swamps has been made and off they all go. Bad things start to happen from the very first day they move in and each new day is worse than the last. This old house has a dreadful evil history. It was the home of a wicked witch, who was burned at the stake, but her ashes had mysteriously vanished before they could be gathered from the burnt ground. There is a force for good, though, in the tiny Bayou town. There is a good witch living nearby who trained under a witch who was known for her good deeds. Sadly, her teacher had recently died after a long and prosperous life. Flora, the good witch, has the knowledge and the power to fight the evil that's trying to take over the Bayou once more. Meeting Flora causes a new set of problems for Raith. He finds himself attracted to both Jennifer, who is posing as his twin sister, and to Flora. This concerns him greatly because he doesn't have any desire to be a polygamist. As Halloween arrives, he finds himself more and more attracted to the young witch while helping her battle the ever-increasing evil. Despite he