When Willa Grey's great aunt dies, she leaves a large amount of money for her to attend the school she went to as a teenager. But when Willa gets there she begins to realise that "The Hardwicke Academy for Refined Ladies and Gentlemen" is a really scary place, just not in the way she thought. The lives of her, and all the students are in the wicked hands of the principal, Elizabeth Hardwicke, a twisted woman who wants the world, and will not give up.