When seven year old Jess and her alcoholic Mother arrive in Haslem, she's an easy target for the brutal bullying culture. But there's something different about Jess. She can see and hear things that other people can't. When Jess is brutalized in a country lane, the ancient spirits of the area appear, angry and full of vengeance. The townspeople take the law into their own hands and commit a terrible act upon an innocent, as brutal and unforgivable as the notorious Witchfinders from centuries past.

Charles Willis is what appears to be a successful, hardworking defence lawyer, loving husband and father. However, there is another side to Charles that only a select few know about. He is part of a major European drugs distribution chain. He spends a lot of his time and money on high class escort girls and frequenting high end gentleman's clubs, drinking expensive beers and champagne. Charles likes to give the impression that he has a lot of power and money, however after the murder of one of his couriers he has to recruit a new one. Charles brings in 2 brothers who he has represented in the past. One of the brothers does not stick to the rules laid down by the drug distribution network and all too quickly Charles realises that he was just a small cog in the large wheel of organised crime.

An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.