When small town witch, Emily Edwards ends up with a rock stuck in her hand, she and Dreadnought Stanton, a New York educated warlock, have to make their way across the whole of the United States in an attempt to find a way of extracting this rock that so many rival groups want. And they are willing to kill Emily to get it for themselves. 
 I have to be honest. I almost didn't get very far into this book at all. The prologue wasn't really working for me anyway and then there was a mention of a "base" drum and I actually face palmed. I'm glad that I persevered, though. I'm also glad to hear that there will be a sequel to this book as there are far too many things from the plot that I still want to know far much more about. 
 Despite the fact that the front cover informs us that 'sometimes love is the most dangerous magic of all' and the synopsis teases us that our heroes will be 'forced to content with the most powerful and unpredictable magic of all - the magic of the human heart', there's not all that much falling in love going on in the foreground of the story. But that's okay because everything else around it actually worked better without a relationship being at the forefront of the narration.