One late October evening, twelve-year-old orphan, Hope Ballinger is magically whisked away from a care home by Ethel Kane a minor goddess and enrolled at the White Light School: there to be trained to rescue lost souls. But Hope is shunned by her classmates, leading to an inauspicious start. To make matters worse, Hope discovers the soul of a lost boy wandering in the school grounds, and when Ethel is mysteriously replaced by the goddesses of pain and baking, the students are left to fight a hideous Diablo a soul-eating soldier of the Demon Gods' army. With the students' friendship strengthened in battle and in an effort to save the lost boy, and the school from closure, they must then face an attack of Tutepotenca-Diablos the most powerful of all Diablos, while Hope must face the awful truth behind her parent's deaths. The Schooling of Hope Ballinger and The Case of The Lost Boy is the first book in The White Light Series - a strange and incredible tale.