It's summer break in Damocles Cove and Alice, Violet and Cal are off to Archaeology Camp. Sure, it's no the K-Pop camp Violet wanted, or the long hours of video gaming that Cal was looking forward to, but Alice's enthusiasm carries them away to the mysterious Malkin Tower on the edge of the spooky Pendle Woods. The work is hard and the findings are scanty, until the day a fellow camper turns up something shocking, and Alice is plunged into a puzzle from the past. Do curses really exist? Is a monstrous beast haunting Pendle Woods? And who is creeping around the tower after midnight? When camp ends and everyone is sent home without answers, Alice will need her signature logic, her special talent, and the support of her friends to reveal the secrets of Pendle Woods - and bring an end to a fatal feud that's gone on for far too long.