While on a walk to try to break her writer's block, Tess finds a golden pen. Thinking about the list of meaningful words she's kept over the years helps her work through her inability to write and she uses the golden pen to put a story about the Salem witch trials to paper. When she wakes the next morning, she finds herself in Salem and that she must live through the witch trials, herself. Can her writing and her meaningful words help her get back to her own time?