The year is 1953. Nineteen-year-old Tiny Sinclair begins her first year at Charity Ambrose Finishing School, and good heavens, she already feels like a complete outcast. All her classmates’ lives appear dreadfully easy: beautiful Betty Fontaine is an elegant and popular socialite, while Diane Mordem, the richest girl in school, is dangerous and mysterious (and, for some reason, hell-bent on ruining Tiny’s life). When a classmate is found rather unmistakably dead and Tiny becomes the number one suspect, her situation seems to go from bad to quite worse. Determined to clear her name, she sets about searching for clues, when something rather unexpected happens: Diane and Betty want to help her solve the mystery. 

The unlikely trio dive into sleuthing to search for the killer. Gracious, when more students begin dying, Tiny, Betty, and Diane realize the enemy they’re looking for might not be entirely human. Additionally bothersome is the fact that Tiny is beginning to find one of her classmates fearfully, and confusingly, attractive. Lousy police officers, suspicious headmistresses, and a kind ally who works in the kitchen populate this novel, all voiced by a narrator who certainly has a mind of their own. And is it mere coincidence, or is Tiny becoming rather braver and more sure of herself as the novel progresses?

Indeed, the trio will need to trust each other, draw upon ancient witchy magic, and find help that stems all the way back to the Salem witch trials to realize that all secrets must eventually come to light.