Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. Laszlo would rather sunbathe in Ibiza, but unfortunately, his division has new management, and his ratings are so abysmal that he's given six days to shape up or he'll be melted down and returned to the Primordial Ooze. Meet Maggie Drakeford, nineteen-year-old Curse Bearer. All she's ever known is the dreary corner of the Catskills where the Drakeford Curse has devoured her father's humanity and is rapidly laying claim to her own. The future looks hopeless, until Laszlo appears at her farmhouse one night and informs them that they have six days to break the spell before it becomes permanent. Can Maggie trust the glib and handsome Laszlo? No, but she can't pass up an opportunity to save her family, even if it means having a demon as a guide...