Gabriella de la Rosa's problems were mundane -- overbearing co-workers and a non-existent personal life -- until Josephine Calfuray, apprentice to the mysterious Master Blancher, saved her from capture and certain doom. Now Gabriella must learn to control powerful magical forces -- forces she never knew existed, but that now threaten to tear her, and the rest of reality, apart. Meanwhile, the diabolical servants of the ominous Ba'alhadon close in...