Alex Stern is a girl with a difficult past, who grew up in Los Angeles, dropped out of school early and got into the company of elders, where weed was respected and the bubbler was passed around. And here is Alex, the only survivor after a brutal murder, just in a hospital bed received an offer to enter Yale, a prestigious university. But what lies behind this offer? After all, the university turned out to be a center of secret societies specializing in the occult and magic, and all this is overseen by the mysterious Ninth House. It is the activities of these societies, among the members who are many very influential people, and assigned to follow Alex - her skills as an outsider and the ability to see ghosts will help her in this. To unravel a conspiracy whose history dates back more than a hundred years, the girl will have to unravel terrible secrets, balancing between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and watch creepy occult manipulations