Despite her shaky beginning at Despaign Academy, a school built on the property of Connecticut's last convicted witch, Evelynn Marston finds friends and hopes to score a reporter position on the school's newspaper. But in a place founded on a bedrock of magic and mystery, Evie discovers there are some willing to summon great evil to gain power. When a friend's life hangs in the balance, Evie gathers her wits and a heaping dose of her own brand of magic to right a terrible wrong, never suspecting the life she saves might be her own