A wonderful summer lies before Maude Sinks and her two best friends, Adair Tiptoe and Ben Evolence, and they plan to take full advantage of it before entering their third year of magic school at Abracadabra Academy. With no sightings of evil wizards lurking about, the three friends enjoy their blissful afternoons together. But when they discover an odd card in Ben's Wuzzy Card collection, they become curious to find out more about the famous witch doctor, Portia Pyrate. The next year of school begins in a flurry of excitment. There are Wizard Wallop team tryouts, Adair's sister, Killan, joins the first-year students, and the three friends are still trying to find out more in the school library about the odd-nosed Portia. When creepy things begin to happen around the school, Maude is convinced that she and her friends need to get to the bottom of the puzzle, and fast. Maude and her friends dive into their biggest adventure yet, with ancient Pirazard ships, a weird Wallop team member, scary voices in the corridors, and an old well in the evil gardens on Abracadabra's grounds. Will Maude, Adair, and Ben discover why these spooky events are happening, or will the two-hundred-year-old witch doctor get her revenge?