Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a secret, though: the witch's grimoire and the recipe inside that makes the best gingerbread you've ever tasted. As long as she can bake, Greta can keep her small family afloat. But in a village full of superstition, Greta and her mysteriously addictive gingerbread is a source of gossip and suspicion. And now, dark magic is returning to the woods, and Greta's magic may be the only thing that can save her. If it doesn't kill her first.