Once upon a time, there were four young women who were lost on vacation and wound up in a small, northern Wisconsin town. But this is not a happy fairy tale. This is the sixth Torture Magic novel. Special Operations' key agents Sam and Bam Grant, Searly McTaggert, Frost, and Chase Meridian are working hard to find Quafara, the ancient Egyptian torture magician who is seeking to resurrect her powerful lover, Elkrod. To do this, she has to establish a torture town in a small city near water, water necessary to cool the portal she will create. Violet, Kylie, Eve, and Sasha have unfortunately found Quafara's town before Special Operations. Victimized by the torture magician Kay Snow and her relatives, some of them die. Some of them live. Some of them . . . change. And the net result is that the lives of the surviving women and Chase will never be the same.