Freshman year has not been kind to Gail Thompson. Half of her friends went to different schools and her best friend ghosted her just after Thanksgiving. As the school year comes to a close, she'll just be glad to make it to the summer where she'll at least get some sense of normalcy again. However, when her birthday comes around she gets an unexpected text from her best friend Rachael has Gail finding her friend knocked out in the woods being attacked by a shadow monster?! After Rachael fends the monster off with magic literally bursting from her finger, Gail finds herself faced with a world she never knew existed. One of magic and danger that her best friend has been fighting back for nearly half a year to keep their town safe. With no magic of her own, no clue what she’s facing and no fighting skills to speak of, Gail is just about to find out how hard it can be to be the chosen one's best friend.