There's a new President on campus and Deena Taylor, executive secretary and administrative aide to the the former President of Westphael College, finds change the mode of the day. Fiance Douglas Tilliman is gone ... where, she doesn't know. When Death stalks a Spindleburne garden, she turns to Wilson Laird for help in determining what lies at the root of spectral presences. He's ex-FBI and a recent Tilliman employee. What doesn't Deena know? Where does she stand in the changing times? Are there nefarious schemes threatening life on campus? Deena learns some Friends are Forever.

Margie Squires has difficulties. Folks in Glenville, Georgia, where she lives with her grandfather while her parents are overseas with the military, think she is different and hard- to-handle. And they have reasons to think that! After a date-gone-wrong, Margie has to suffer tales her "escort" on that occasion has told and is telling. How her grandfather and friends push her past her silence is a mystery of this Easter season.

There's a new President on campus and Deena Taylor, executive secretary and administrative aide to the the former President of Westphael College, finds change the mode of the day. Fiance Douglas Tilliman is gone ... where, she doesn't know. When Death stalks a Spindleburne garden, she turns to Wilson Laird for help in determining what lies at the root of spectral presences. He's ex-FBI and a recent Tilliman employee. What doesn't Deena know? Where does she stand in the changing times? Are there nefarious schemes threatening life on campus? Deena learns some Friends are Forever.

Margie Squires has difficulties. Folks in Glenville, Georgia, where she lives with her grandfather while her parents are overseas with the military, think she is different and hard- to-handle. And they have reasons to think that! After a date-gone-wrong, Margie has to suffer tales her "escort" on that occasion has told and is telling. How her grandfather and friends push her past her silence is a mystery of this Easter season.