Death isn't the end for Marleigh Markson... When she's presented with an opportunity to attend a peculiar school for magical beings, Marleigh decides that being a ghost isn't the end of her story. She travels to the town of Ytherynia and enlists in Gifted Blood Academy on a full-ride scholarship--hoping to finally reach her dreams of working in tech--, teaming up with the moody Ebony Way and the snoopy PJ Stanley to make the most out of freshman year: take two. But Marleigh and her new friends soon discover that students are going missing at Gifted Blood Academy, which the administration has failed to report for years. As a horrific apparition begins stalking Marleigh after each abduction, she realizes that she must find the connection between the two events to save her remaining classmates.