Book one follows sixteen year old Ophelia Allen as she is sent to a boarding school in New Hampshire following a traumatic event three months earlier. Now, all Ophelia wants to do is get back to normal, but that's going to be harder than it seems. When one of her classmates is murdered and Ophelia is suspected, she must weave her way through the school's ancient secrets, and a town's dark history, before she winds up in jail. Or worse.