With Samson kidnapped, the private conspiracies and harbored ambitions of the Mickwac criminal elite have spiraled into a calamity of epic proportions that no one foresaw. As Charlotte and Gunther race to find out who's ultimately behind the conniving cabal that captured Samson, they must confront their growing distrust of the companions claiming to stand beside them. Will Charlotte unravel the scheme that imperils not only her feline familiar but the stability of the human and paranormal worlds themselves? Or will Samson's disappearance mark the beginning of the end for the Magical Midway?