The gods, witches and politicians all enjoy the daily tug-of-war for control. In a world of constant scheming and manoeuvring, their peaceful world of ruining each other's day was truly disrupted. What if it was all just a distraction keeping everyone busy until They came back home again? At the urging of her beloved grandmother, Cassie takes an apparently safe and humdrum job in a government office in Glasgow. However, it turns out the conspiracy theorists are right, and there's more to the civil service than box-ticking and inscrutable acronyms. When Cassie is drawn into a plot involving alien invaders, unscrupulous billionaires and the highest levels of government, she also discovers that living in her home city are a group of semi-retired gods, witches and supernatural beings, hidden in plain sight. As Cassie's true power becomes apparent - she can get people to do what she wants merely by suggesting it to them - she becomes a vital ally against the forces that want to rid the world of gods and humans alike. They have only 10 days to save the human race and themselves.