The baleful soul of Heinrich Kramer, a German Inquisitor from the 14th century, is lurking in the netherworld, waiting for a physical vehicle to return to earth to complete his Holy Mission of burning witches at the stake. He is the author of the Malleus Maleficarum, or Witches Hammer, which was the treatise on how to recognize, interrogate, judge and then execute these innocent women, who, in a superstitious era, were the scapegoats for natural disasters. He alights on Tamsin, an English Rose, trying to find herself and overcome her past during a spiritual retreat, and decides she would be the perfect victim; which is precisely the role Tamsin is trying to shed. She is there to take control of her life. His persistence makes her question whether she was, in fact, this Inquisitor in a past life.