When attractive, youthful Crystal Gregory takes a teaching position
at Sunnydale High, she also takes what seems to be an instant dislike to Buffy Summers. Buffy's Slayer sense doesn't detect anything unusual
about the teacher. But when you're living on a Hellmouth, nothing is
what it seems.
Crystal isn't above playing favorites, and her
pets – including Willow, Michael, and Anya – are loyal to her in the
extreme. This wouldn't bother Buffy... but for the fact that she has
found a fresh burn mark on two of the students' necks. Giles immediately recognizes the symbol as the mark of a powerful witch whose existence
predates the Salem Witch Trials.
The primal witch will continue
to wreak havoc until she successfully gathers a coven of thirteen people who have magickal ability. Once the group is created, she will perform a moonlit ritual to endow herself with infinite power, at which point all members of her clan – indeed, all human beings – will be subject to
her will. Buffy's going to need her Wicca girl, Willow, to save the
world this time – but can Willow be persuaded by reason before it's too late?
