After Andromeda Klein's tarot card readings prove to be accurate, she discovers clues to secret truths connected to her family and friends, but things become stranger when Andromeda's dead friend Daisy starts to harass her.
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.
Young psychic Sara Collins is nervous about starting school in Stellamar. When Sara is signed up to run for harvest queen in the upcoming pageant, she finds that a spirit desperately needs her help, risking ridicule at her new school.
Sarah Wright and her father Ephraim move to Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1692, where they witness the Salem witchcraft hysteria, during which Ephraim is arrested and Sarah must try to help him escape from jail.
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
Mai Taniyama joins Naru and the Shibuya Psychic Research team in investigating the Morishita family home, where every child who has lived there has died tragically.
Aware of her sister's deadly efforts to secure the Scottish throne for Robert de Brus, Meg realizes she must protect the young Norwegian princess who has been chosen as rightful heir.
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.
