Rose Thenlif, the only student unable to cast spells at the elite Dunhollow Academy of Witchcraft, prefers keeping her nose in books and away from the sneers of her classmates, or the critical eyes of her headmistress mother.

But when her fellow classmates begin to go missing, she finds that she alone can see their ghosts.

Worse yet, Rose's latest ghostly vision is her greatest academic rival, the talented and recently vanished classmate Sylvie. Now the reluctant pair must team up to uncover the deadly secret at the heart Dunhollow.

But neither of them are prepared to uncover their feelings for one another, a love that will take them to the edge of life and death . . .