When eighteen-year-old Brynn Taylor is chased out by her grudging legal guardians, she is ready to embrace a new life. Headed to college, she’s hoping to enroll in summer school after her eager to escape the bad memories associated with her aunt and uncle after her parents died. But everything goes wrong. A hit-and-run driver totals her car, her credit card is maxed out and someone has stolen the money her parents left her. Brynn lands in small-town Wisconsin and discovers an aunt she didn’t know she had. With a shortage of options, Brynn reluctantly bunks with her new-found relative. But there’s something strange about the homemade soaps and bath salts—and other concoctions—Aunt Nora mixes in her secretive home workshop. Nora insists they aren’t witches, and yet she trains Brynn in the alchemy they can work with the herbs and flowers that grow in Nora’s garden. After years of suppression, Brynn finds a home in the time-capsule town, along with new friends and a sense of family she’s been missing since her parents died. But past sins catch up to both Brynn and Nora, threatening their relationship, and their futures.