It was originally published by Macmillan in the UK in 2007 and released in the United States a year later under the title Well Witched.

[1] The story starts when Ryan, Chelle and Josh stranded without their bus fare home.

Ryan sees a watery face in the mirror, and finds white lumps on his hands.

Light bulbs explode in Josh's house, and Chelle's babbling becomes shockingly strange.

In the village, they realize that Chelle is speaking aloud the thoughts of a tea-shop man, Will Wurthers.

Her power is telepathic, as the thoughts of the people who have made wishes at the well spill uncontrollably out of her mouth when they are nearby.

She gains power through the granting of wishes, but the complexity of the human world baffles her so that she has to work through surrogates.

The previous "Well's Angels" drowned her beloved baby daughter - because during her unwanted pregnancy she had wished not to have a child.