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Ashford, Vermont, might appear to be your typical sleepy New Britain college or university town, but to the shadowy residents who live one of the remains of its empty mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown". Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, is a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night time her father, A long way, drowned in a flood that remaining her and her mom, Lily, homeless. A respectable professor, A long way was also an inventor of fantastic machines, including one so magic formula that the strategies were said to have been stolen from Thomas Edison's workshop. According to Lily, it's this machine that acquired Miles murdered. Necco has always written off this lay claim as the fevered imaginings of a female consumed by grief. However when Lily dies under mysterious circumstances and Necco's sweetheart is murdered, she's persuaded her mom was telling the reality. Now, on the run from the person called "Snake Eyes", Necco must rely on other Burntown outsiders to survive. There will be the "fire eaters", mystical women living off of the grid in a campsite on the river's advantage, practicing some sort of soothsaying inspired by powerful herbs called "the devil's snuff"; there's Theo, a higher school senior who's scrambling to settle the amount of money she owes an unhealthy man; and then there's Pru, the cafeteria sweetheart with a magic formula life. As the lives of these misfits intersect, and since the killer from the Sandeski family's history draws ever deeper, a story of edge-of-your-seat suspense begins to unfurl, with common Jennifer McMahon twists and surprises.