Courtney Little never knew her grandmother but it seems Delia wants to make her presence felt. Dad isn't saying why he left Mixton Bay years ago, and now strange things are happening in her gransmother's old house.  When Courtney finds a mystical ''Book of Spells'' with her name on the box,and she meets Ink the talking cat, and Justice, the surfer boy with a secret of  his own, her boring holiday starts to get a lot more interesting.