The action starts on the first page as a lawyer for the city, his wife and twin foster children are killed in their sleep. After that, it just doesn’t stop.
One would have thought that being Frank Michaels of Channel Three's Frank Finance Show would mean that "Mr. Finance" would be the least likely to fall victim to a Ponzi scheme. Unfortunately, for Maddie Michaels though, her husband did invest all of their savings with an investor who promptly stole all of their money, leaving it up to Maddie to figure out a way to scrimp and save and not have Frank risk losing his reputation and job at the television station due to his poor judgment.
For a High Priestess and manager of the Midnight Magic Shop, Mona McGregor has very little faith. Her mother died giving birth to her youngest sister when Mona was eleven, their father was killed by a drunk driver nine years later, and the grandparents who raised them died five years after that. Assuming the task of raising her two young sisters ever since the deaths, Mona has always been the responsible one, the one who took care of everyone's problems, the one who sacrificed for the greater good.
