When fourteen-year-old Grant Taylor becomes the newest student at the Knollwood Academy for delinquent boys, he discovers the real danger lies inside the school. Are the tortured screams and mutilating accidents all a ploy to frighten the rebellious students, or is there something truly evil lurking in the Academy?

Grant befriends the new art teacher, Dreeson "Coop" Cooper, in an effort to uncover the truth about paranormal occurrences and altered classmates. Their worst fears are confirmed with the discovery of a mysterious black book rumored to be Satan's bible. Time is running out as they hurry to decipher the book's archaic script and learn evil's true plan before it can destroy the world...