Magic, betrayal, treachery—that is what Stella Henry, the daughter of a powerful Jamaican voodoo priestess, is used to. She has seen what magic and jealousy can do. Her mother, Taletha, is constantly at war with Gladys, her father’s wife, using her powers to get what she wants—going so far as to destroy all that she loves.
And while Stella desires to be different from her mother, the voodoo is never far. When she becomes pregnant at sixteen by Niv Brown, the course of true love doesn't run smoothly, causing him to flee on the day of their wedding. Will her hurt and anger turn inward? Or will the young woman who is so against the voodoo become exactly what she doesn’t want to be? Can she escape her warring family, or will they all pay a heavy price for magic?