A settler in an early American colony in New England is banished from his community.
With few options left, the man ventures further into the woods and during a hunt on a boar, gets injured.
He awakens in a small but cozy hut and has his wounds tended to by a young woman.
To his horror, he realizes that this is the witch of the woods that the townfolks had talked and warned him about prior to his banishment.
Only, is she really evil, or just misunderstood by the patriarchal and puritan men in charge of the colony?
This is ever so slightly based upon the movie "The Witch", only it would not include any real witchcraft. Rather, the witch in this story is a young woman who chooses to live on her own and thus has a level of freedom that other women of her age cannot possess.
The fact that she is shunned and people fear her for her choice is the price she has to pay. Basically I see this developing as a romance story in which the man overcomes his fear for her and they fall in love.
