Amelia Shadows has never had what you might call a �normal� childhood. For one thing, her dad�s the most powerful dark magician in the world. And for another, she�s spent her entire life in a house filled with ghosts and monsters and incredibly dangerous magical objects! As far as Amelia�s concerned, her life�s actually pretty cool. When Amelia and her cat, Clara, aren�t having adventures or dealing with dimensional portals in the pantry, she�s learning to be a dark magician, just like her dad, with the help of a ghost tutor named Gustave. You�d think a ghost tutor named Gustave would be pretty fun, but he�s actually pretty boring. And if a boring ghost tutor wasn�t bad enough, now Amelia�s dad has hired another ghost to oversee things, Hans. Which wouldn�t be that bad, except Hans has very strong opinions about how things should be around the house. This new head ghost has got to go, and Amelia may have a surprising ally� Magic and mischief and a life lesson or two from Matthew Dow Smith, creator of DC�s Misfits of Magic and Maverick�s The October Girl.