Storm Front is the story of Harry Dresden, a hard-boiled detective living in Chicago. Harry is also a wizard, albeit not one on good terms with his fellow magic-users who view him as backward and ridiculous. He stumbles onto the case of Victor Sells, a warlock manufacturing magical drugs and killing through dangerous sorcerous rituals. Harry must race to stop Sells from claiming the city as his own and annihilating Chicago's fledgling magical community.