When your best friend turns a maximum security prison into his personal kingdom of naked theater, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

Tark just wants to do his job as Academy gamekeeper, keeping the magical grounds in order while his wife Seela handles her duties as headmistress.

But when their owls stop returning from the prison where Tark's best friend Grixx is locked up, they have no choice but to investigate. What they find defies explanation: inmates running wild, guards in chains, and an elaborate underground theater troupe performing questionable interpretive dance.

Oh, and Marybeth's persona is merging with the God-voice in her head. And it told her everything about the True Evil. It's too much for one person, especially a girl on the cusp of adulthood. She's bursting to tell someone, anyone, and finds an unlikely confidant or two...