A modern retelling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ballad poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Necromancy Cottage steps into a world where magic is around every corner... but there's a high price to pay for it. Troubled fifteen-year-old Casey Harris has fled to Clover Isle, a spooky and isolated place where everything seems to be frozen in the 1970's, where spells to ward off hexes are painted on doors, and where a sinister witch is rumoured to have cursed the forest, making the place virtually uninhabitable... but when Casey sneaks into the forest to build herself a makeshift camp, she comes across a secluded and quaint little cottage, home to a powerful sorcerer who knows just about everything to do with magic. Desmond Trauer knows how to levitate dishes and food in mid-air. He knows how to conjure up ghosts of the deceased. He knows how to grow giant pumpkins and string beans that offer an infinite supply. He even knows how to seal the island, preventing his house guests from leaving... Finding herself trapped on Clover Isle, Casey befriends Scott and Celia, the two young adults who run their absentee parents' small diner along the coastline, and Holly, Desmond's apprentice sorcerer. But the threat of the witch looms closer and closer every day, and Desmond becomes more and more restrictive, leading Casey to tear down the alluring illusion of what's been built on Clover Isle and uncovering something she never expected to find.