Jeannette Hagart leads a normal, boring life, wishing for something new and better to happen to her. While returning from lunch she gets her wish, and finds herself hunted by a powerful witch. Forced to turn to unlikely friends, Jeannette used skills she never knew she possessed to stay alive—Welcome to the Chicago of a mysterious new universe, where the physical laws allow for the use of magic, and what passes for the fictional in Jeannette's old world are part of this usual society.