Billy lives in the idyllic rural community of Mina Sauk County in southeast Missouri with his grandparents. Summer is here and his goal is to relax at the swimming hole, play baseball with his friends, and score some tongue at the skating rink. But, in this coming-of-age story, Billy discovers that whatever trouble he may get himself into, his grandmother quickly discovers through magic-her cornbread voodoo. Throughout the novel, Gram works her magic and Billy and Jake try to find ways to circumvent it. Eventually, they all face a challenge that even Gram’s cornbread voodoo cannot seem to cure.