Harriet Stoker is in her first year at uni. She's young and ambitious and knows exactly where she wants to go in life. But first she must pass her basic photography class.After she falls to her death taking photographs in Mulcture Hall, a dormitory long abandoned after a mysterious gas leak killed several students in 1994, a few of its ghosts come out to meet her. Eager to befriend the new girl, they try to help her through the trauma of her death. But Harriet has only two things on her mind: to get home to her gran and regain some semblance of her previous life.After she falls in with some trickster ghosts who teach her how to increase her powers, she uses lessons her gran taught her ("Take what you need and move on when you're not getting it." "Don't show weakness. Don't give them anything they can use against you.") to Machiavellian perfection. Even as the other ghosts try to maintain their friendship and help her, she has no problems hurting them and others. Harriet is selfish, cruel and ruthless in her pursuit of the power to achieve her goals. Despite her untimely death, she doesn't deserve our sympathy.Until...