Indigo Springs is a sleepy town where things seem pretty normal . . . until Astrid''s father dies and she moves into his house. She discovers that for many years her father had been accessing the magic that flowed literally in a blue stream beneath the earth leaking into his house. When she starts to use the liquid vitagua to enchant everyday items the results seem innocent enough: a ''chanted watch becomes a charm that means you''re always in the right place at the right time; a ''chanted pendant enables the wearer to convince anyone of anything . . .But as events in Indigo Springs unfold and the true potential of vitagua is revealed Astrid and her friends unwittingly embark on a journey fraught with power change and a future too devastating to contemplate. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends as Astrid discovers secrets from her shrouded childhood that will lead her to a destiny stranger than she could have imagined . . .