After unsealing a room, Silas Heap inadvertently releases a deadly ghost onto the grounds but when Septimus and Jenna
find out that she's a past Queen. A heap a trouble brews for the citizens when they all become sick, now it's a race against time to find the cue and to discover where the Queen came from.
Until Sept disappears into the past, once there he meets plenty of people but is assigned to a new wizard.
Now learning a new form of magic, which is called
Physik, Sept later discovers that he has
fallen to the time of the mad queen. Who is haunting his present day friends since she is bent on destroying any of her own family from ruling in her stead.
Though Jenna's life hangs in the balance as times goes on, can Septimus get back to his own time or can't he.