When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her: Magic lessons. From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish: Magic or madness. Reason Cansino must uncover the secret of the magic in her family's background to save the lives of her friends Tom and Jay-tee: Magic's child.