The Ravynne sisters take another plunge down what Meg calls Alice's 'rabbit hole' when they head to a village called Solomon's Notch deep in the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains. Asked to investigate the disappearance of four young students, they arrive incognito at the Tremayne Academy for Young Ladies where they seek employment under their new identities.
Converted from the sprawling Neo-Gothic mansion built by the Copper King, Harland Tremayne, in the late 1800s, the academy was now a private school for the cast-away children of the very wealthy, and administered by the prim Mary Tremayne and her way too gorgeous (in Meg's estimation) older brother Aidan. The sisters must tread warily in the complex web of intrigue they soon find themselves mired in as they discover what goes 'bump in the night' is a brand new kind of horror.