Blackwell magic was not pumpkins turned into carriage coaches and thread spun into gold.

Jessa Blackwell is in the business of burying hearts. Each generation one Blackwell daughter is apprenticed to learn the magic of burying the hearts of Hickton's dead. The hearts are sent to the Blackwells by the mysterious Carter family after the dead have been prepared for burial. The Blackwells and the Carters are like ships passing in the night; they don't interact much with one another. That is until one day Mitch Carter shows up on Jessa's front porch holding a hand-carved wooden box that contains one very special heart.

This one transformative moment launches Jessa into an exploration across generations of Blackwell women, from her Grandmama Silvia to the elusive Charlie Blackwell, all the way up to the present with her own Mama who up and left with a handyman, leaving Jessa and her sisters to handle the family business on their own. What she learns is that the magic of family, sisterhood, and love transcends space and time.