Riley Rose finds his cushy campus lifestyle part of history when one hot August day, Jakup, a scrub jay and freelance familiar for Local 723 of the Witches Union, Napa branch, drafts him into the psychic and supernatural world. A reluctant Riley signs on to assist Jakup in an assignment to thwart a threat to the vintners of the valley. A reluctant Riley learns he possesses a multitude of undiscovered psychic talents, none of which he'd consciously used before. Still skeptical of the jay's he joins the witch's effort to overcome the insidious plot of strange vampires and outsiders from around the world plotting to bring down the famous wine growing area.