New year...

New teachers...

New headmistress...

Same danger!

The new teachers seem nicer, and normal. Almost.

And all anyone remembers of what happened before is a devastating fire.

Could the pupils of Thornberry Woods be in even greater danger at the hands of the sadistic Miss Pulchre?

Trusting nobody, Sophie, Lucy, Ben and Jack start the school year prepared to fight.

But how could they prepare for this?

Monsters not people!