Murphy Blackwell hides inside her heavily warded Victorian home in quiet Gryphon Alabama to protect the world from her damage. Murphy is a gray witch—a chaos witch—the most unusual and hazardous type. Her only friends are also witches, two coven members who never left her side after the night the three of them lost their mothers during a deadly attack on their coven.

Her life is turned upside down when a gunman enters her home, shattering Murphy's sense of safety. Then her high priestess delivers a new blow that changes everything Murphy thought she knew about herself and her magical power. The chaos Murphy knew was only the start of the disaster to come.