Silje og Tengel fant en fredet plett i Isfolkets dal, og Silje var lykkelig som Tengels hustru. Likevel lengtet hun ut, følte seg innestengt i den trange dalen med de merkelige, trangsynte menneskene. Særlig fryktet hun Hanna, den eldgamle heksen som henrykt lærte bort sine knep til lille Sol, Tengels niese. Dessuten hvilte truselen om en kommende katastrofe over dalen. Hanna hadde forutsett den, og hun tok aldri feil...

In Witch-Hunt, Silje Arngrimsdotter, the seventeen-year-old heroine of the opening novel Spellbound, struggles to come to terms with the harshness of life in a high mountain valley among the witches and warlocks of the mysterious Ice People.

Having fled there for her life with her adored ‘wolf man’ and two foundling infants from the Trondheim plague, Silje has bravely borne their first child. But this life of austere poverty is shattered when bloodthirsty, witch-hunting troops invade the remote valley.

Warned in time, Silje, her ‘wolf man’ and their charges flee from the carnage to the lowlands again to begin a new life. But unknowingly are they also carrying with them into the future the accursed heritage of the Ice People?