Everyone in Evie's East-Coast school is obsessed with Kill Screen, one of the scariest, most intense video games on the market. But no one has ever beat the game and many believe there must be a defect in the last level, making victory impossible to attain. At the tail end of her second gaming all-nighter in a row, Evie finally figures out how to defeat the final ghost, the Wisp, and she slumps on the couch, elated and exhausted. But her work is far from over, for as the first person to ever complete Kill Screen, she's unwittingly unleashed the Wisp into our world.