Note to self: Never warm a Cup-a-Soup using magic when it's just as easy to use a microwave.

Violet Jourdain is in trouble. She made a bad choice when preparing her lunch, and now she is in hot water with Baba Yaga herself. Her punishment? Two weeks of no magic and a forced vacation to rest, relax, and get her head on straight. That doesn't sound too bad, right? Except Violet is a workaholic Healing Witch, who has no idea how to take a break. Not that she can relax even if she tries. Why? Because she's staying in an apparently haunted cottage in the middle of the Louisiana bayou.

Add to that, her familiar, a proper British housecat, is suddenly acting like a rude, creepy lecher. She also has a supposed ghost leaving her menacing, but possibly, helpful messages. And her only neighbor is her sister's brother-in-law, who happens to talk to himself-or maybe dead people-but is still the most attractive man she's ever met. Yeah, things are definitely not relaxing.

Oh well, peace and quiet isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway.