Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common accept a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

At the end of the first of five all-new adventures in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald has escaped custody and set about raising pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.