Startled awake by a scream, Emily searches her room but finds no-one. When something cold and wet climbs into her bed, she flees downstairs to her father, who is sure she was dreaming ... Her blood soaked bed tells him he's wrong and after examining her he can see it's not her blood. This is the beginning of ghostly apparitions and the disappearances of Cecilie Sutton. Emily's investigations are constantly disrupted and delayed by a lovelorn youth and his hysteria machine. Can she solve the ghostly mysteries and free the captives before she is taken as well ... ?