Teenage wizard Nita Callahan returns home from a chaotic vacation, yearning for some peace. But her hopes are shattered when her close friend Kit starts acting strangely, and suddenly wizardry isn't the answer—or worse, it's the wrong one.

As her magical partnership with Kit unravels and unfixable problems pile up, Nita seeks answers from the elusive Transcendent Pig, but it's not talking. Then her mother falls gravely ill, so ill she may never leave the hospital.

Desperate and out of options, Nita realizes only one person can help her—the one she's devoted her life to fighting. To save her mother, will she make a deal with the enemy?