Cassie Blake just wants to go home and go back to school with her friends she's known for a long time, but instead she and her mother will have to stay with her grandmother in New Salem. No one at her new school wants to hang out with Cassie, and she has no idea why. And then she notices a certain Club, a group of teenagers who actually run both this city and the school. Meanwhile, Cassie begins to think that magic exists, and absolute confidence comes when the Club accepts her into its ranks. Cassie will have to learn to use magic and behave correctly with those who do not want to see her in the ranks of the group. Things only get worse when she finds out that the guy she has a crush on is actually the boyfriend of a very respected person at the club...