As a gray witch, twenty-six-year-old Murphy Blackwell lived her life isolated from the world and sheltering the world from her damage. Gray witches are, after all, chaos witches—the most hazardous type known to humankind. She was to blame for all the mayhem that occurred whenever she ventured outside of Witch's Brew, her heavily warded home and business, and there was little she could do about it. Murphy had no life and no family. Her only friends were two coven members who never left her side after the night their mothers were murdered. The killers were never found.
Betony is a strong-willed high-schooler determined to learn all there is about the craft. As her primary instructor, she has adopted Murphy, a solitary practitioner, but Murphy isn't sure about her aspiring student's designs. Betony says all the right things. So why is Murphy second-guessing her motivation?
When a gunman evades Murphy's wards and enters her shop, her sense of safety is shattered. Then, her high priestess delivers a new blow, one that puts everything in danger—what she is, who her friends are, and the survival of the entire town of Gryphon.