Barbara Occult is the oldest orphan at the district's afterwar orphanage for girls where she was abandoned as a baby. There are rumors that Barbara can do things- very strange things. The caregivers think she is a monster. The other girls are scared of her. And no family has ever wanted to adopt her. with gifts that have only ever felt like curses, Barbara has spent her life alone. But everything changes on her seventeenth birthday when a mysterious woman arrives at the orphanage claiming to be a Grand Sorceress from a secret magical community. The Sorceress offers answers to questions that have haunted Barbara her entire life- but insists that some secrets are buried for a reason.