Semya Beatris Kleyborn mechtaet, chtoby doch skoree vyshla zamuzh: tolko eyo brak s bogachom spasyot ih ot razoreniya. No sama Beatris hochet stat velikoy volshebnitsey. Eyo privodit v uzhas mysl o kole, kotoroe posle svadby zastegnyotsya na eyo shee i podavit eyo magiyu. S pomoschyu tainstvennogo grimuara Beatris sobiraetsya postich vse sekrety vysshey magii... No kakaya-to negodyayka vykradyvaet knigu u neyo iz-pod nosa!
Chtoby vernut dragotsennyy tom, Beatris prizyvaet duha. V obmen na pomosch tot na odin vecher zanimaet telo Beatris, otpravlyaetsya na bal... gde tseluet bogatogo i znatnogo krasavtsa Iante Lavana. I vskore pered Beatris vstayot muchitelnyy vybor: stat pervoy volshebnitsey v mire magov-muzhchin - ili obresti semeynoe schaste s edinstvennym chelovekom, kotoryy vidit i prinimaet eyo takoy, kakaya ona est...