Long ago, the evil wizard Calixto Swift committed a terrible crime against twelve-year-old Anastasia s family, a crime that began the Perpetual War between witches and the people of Nowhere Special.
The witches have long since been banished, but deep in the darkest, most forbidden back alleys of Nowhere Special lies Calixto s mysterious, unbreakable glass cabinet. And that cabinet holds the key to Anastasia s missing grandfather . . . if Anastasia, Ollie, Quentin, and Gus (aka the League of Beastly Dreadfuls) can decipher the clues and figure out how to open it.