Hank and Gus want to investigate the legend that the Ravens Pass city hall was built over a cellar with a witch sealed inside it, and a school field trip seems like the perfect opportunity--but the witch may be waiting for them.
Jake Demby is being bullied by a kid called Gary Herk, until his friend sends him a golem named Emmet from Ravens Pass as a protector--but when Emmet threatens Jake's mother the situation starts to spin out of control.
Jace Thomas buys a sleek, red ride-on toy car at a garage sale in Ravens Pass, but when the car attacks him, Jace realizes that everything at that sale is cursed.
The Galactic Expansion Home for Lost Children, otherwise known in Ravens Pass as the Old Orphanage, is actually full of alien children ready to take over the planet--but at least one of them may actually be a human spy.