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In Adriana Mather's How to Hang a Witch, Samantha “Sam” Mather and her stepmother, Vivian, move to Salem, Massachusetts, to manage her father's medical bills while he is in a coma. Struggling to fit into her new school, Sam finds herself targeted by a group of teens known as the Descendants, due to her ancestor's role in the Salem Witch Trials. As mysterious deaths and accidents plague the town, Sam and a ghost named Elijah work together to break a centuries-old curse, revealing hidden family secrets and Sam's own latent abilities as a witch. The material references death by suicide.