Contrary Creek

Up until now, the only thing 16-year-old Danny Cloud has needed to worry about is whether he can work up the courage to talk to girls. The remote, isolated ranch where his family lives seems safe from the rest of the world.

But strange things are happening in the town of Faraway, 10 miles from the Cloud ranch. The high school principal has gone on a crusade. A beautiful, mysterious teacher claims to be a witch and turns her science class into a theater of the disturbed. A series of suspicious deaths put the town on edge.

And meanwhile, a different kind of witch hunt is brewing that could tear apart the town — and the Cloud family's way of life.