fourteenyearold jilly farina was mesmerized by millroy the magician at the barnstable county fair after all he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her but when jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance she had no idea he would transform her dreary life into something truly magical and a touch bizarrefor millroy was no ordinary magician he could smell the future and jilly was going to be part of it yet not even millroy could foresee how far determination and a dream could take him as he and his new young assistant hit the roadand the airwavesto save americas unhealthy appetite and floundering soul