Eric and Percy are first years starting at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school with a spot for every young witch and wizard. Eric came to be the smartest in the school, while Percy came to socialize with new witches and wizards, but when people go missing the excitable Percy and the reluctant Eric are forced into unraveling the mysteries of the school.

Eric was never one to believe in ghost stories, the ghouls that he interacted with were visible, but when rumors start popping up about a shad haunting the castle. Eric, his sister Mia, and his best friend Percy seem to be thrown in to the thick of things. And most importantly, can the three of them pass their classes?

James Redwood and his sister Lila are Half-bloods going to Ilvermorny, but with weird dreams about and girl with a red dress and a mysteriously absent Headmaster plagues James with questions. But most mysteriously and dangerously, why was there a coffin chained to the walls of a forbidden part of the dungeon?