Mildred Poisonapple may be the granddaughter of the powerful matriarch of her clan, but her spells go awry and she lacks her grandmother’s power. So she tries to make her own way by commuting to the big city to work at Modern Witchcraft, Inc., a huge corporation that represents everything her traditional grandmother hates about the modern world. When her boss wrongly blames her for an incident at work, her job goes from barely tolerable to completely miserable.Things start to change when she meets a handsome Mundane one day on the subway. Despite the vast differences in their worlds and her grandmother’s disapproval, Mildred pursues the relationship. Things are looking up in her personal life, but Mildred’s new confidence has also put her on a collision course with a power hungry witch at work.