More girls are going missing, and Asha is ready to crack the case wide open. When she hears there’s a runaway in the city, the witch chases her down and takes her to the Copperfield Institute—her alma mater and the best magical academy in the Realm. Dusty was running away from her abusive parents. She’s thrilled to be able to stay at the academy. In the suburbs, the cheerful Delport family are moving into their new house. Soon they realize that the house is haunted, and they are terrorized by the childlike ghosts who live there. Asha is called to help them, but battles to find the source of the haunting. Desperate, the family hire a “ghostbuster” who turns out to be a charlatan. As the house becomes more dangerous, the children are in jeopardy and the Delports are terrified. Asha tries to break the curse but succumbs to a magical booby trap and is flung into a surreal hellscape – known as Oblivion—and almost dies trying to escape. She realizes that the reason the ghost-children are haunting the house is because there are kidnapped children stuck in the soundproofed cellar. The children that didn’t survive the imprisonment are asking for help for their friends. Finally, Asha finds the curser – the previous owner of the house – and kills him, breaking the curse. They rescue the children in the cellar.