She knew she was in trouble when her hair caught fire Aisling Carson had always had odd luck, often good, sometimes bad. She seemed to have found her calling as a blackjack dealer in Vegas. But when she nearly burned down Caesars Palace she knew her future lay elsewhere. With the help of disgraced physicist Virgil Maxwell, who had turned away from a brilliant career in quantum mechanics to research quantum thaumaturgy, she hopes to unravel the secrets of her own nature. However, her escapades have caught the attention of a coven of dark witches. They insist she choose a path. Their path. To save both themselves and the entire American southwest, Aisling and Virgil will have to answer an age old question: When science and sorcery do battle in a nuclear reactor core, who wins?