Returning to Adocentyn after an unpleasant Christmas with her parents, 18-year-old Ariel Moravec is eager to study more magic with her adept grandfather. But she barely has time to arrive before she's investigating her newest mystery: a haunting even professional ghost hunters couldn't solve.
One of the old mansions south of Coopers Bay is haunted by the ghost of an old woman with a cane, who is only seen by moonlight. Behind that shadowy figure is a mystery a tangled web of grief and passion that began with a 1931 gangland massacre and set cascading consequences in motion down to the present.
The further Ariel investigates, the outline of a forgotten tragedy begins to surface, centered in the old mansion and the uncanny numbers of crows that haunt it day and night...
