Crown of shadows: Sam Lesser may be dead and gone, but Dodge still has uses for him, and in the first chill days of October, will make contact with him again. The dead know things the living may not, and Sam's restless spirit has had time to discover the thing Dodge wants to know most of all... where to find the key to the black door. Keys to the kingdom: The Locke children have grown accustomed to the myriad magical keys discovered within the ancestral...

Tyler and Kinsey learn the true story of the Locke family and travel through time, while Zack Wells assumes a new form.