Twenty-year-old Mildred Hines is injured by a random act of terror and a magical shock wave that dislodges the spell that's made her face match her hideous name for the past eight year. Ignored, mocked and pitied since she was first dropped at twelve years old at the front curb of the club owned by her "family", Mily has had nothing to do with that life since she was old enough to leave. When unexpected and dangerous powers come online with the pretty face, Mily is forced to accept help from key people in her old life. She gets a taste of attention, praise, and admiration. Power and beauty can be a heady combination, but not for a woman who has been rejected most her life. She plans to leave as soon as she can gain control of her powers and her life is her own again. But powers are not meant to be gained over night and the person who secretly cursed her in the first place is not pleased at the kind of attention Mily is receiving.