They say curiosity killed the cat…. Sam "Spuggy" Spencer is just an ordinary girl, leading an unremarkable life and that's just the way she likes it. Until that is, an unexciting history project takes a turn for the sinister. Whilst researching a controversial building project on the site of an ancient monastery, she meets a campaigning professor who is intent on stopping the work. The academic has evidence that the development is set to destroy the answers to a centuries old murder mystery. As Spuggy and her friends investigate, they stumble into the centre of a conspiracy which threatens the future of the school and will bury the secrets of the monastery forever. With the bulldozers moving in and the professor seriously injured, Spuggy is forced to take matters into her own hands. With terrifying consequences. History just got serious. ….will Spuggy ever learn?