The youngest daughter of the wealthy Habborlain family in Victoria era, Adelaide has dreams of being a beautiful, well-loved opera singer with her own successful family, cosmetics brand and acting career- unfortunately she has neither the talent or grace to succeed in almost any of that, and she doesn't want to practice as she views it as a "peasant" activity...despite her parents and siblings often practice. In a desperate state, she travels to an apothecary in London rumored to be magic.