Cat Viggolone just can't get a break. She'd gotten married, but that ended when the husband left her for his younger secretary. She wanted children. That flew out the window with the cheating husband. There's the career, but working a window at the Virginia DMV can't really be classified as a great career choice. At thirty-three, her life had become positively dull.

Then the vortex opened.

Sucked into a corridor just outside of hell, she meets Connor, a werewolf, and Larry, a demon that looks like a blue-eyed eyeball. They escape back to earth, only to find that the vortex has opened up in downtown Richmond. The town is going to hell, literally. Besides a grayness seeping out and turning all living things into zombies, monsters and demons are invading Cat's world.

Will Cat and her new friends (including an angel named George) be able to stop the vortex before it claims the entire planet?

Cat's life is definitely no longer humdrum and ordinary.