Freshly single and thoroughly traumatised from the ordeals of breast cancer, Eleanor Mellett starts a new job as teacher in a remote mountain hamlet. Its peaceful. Almost too peaceful. And whats become of the previous teacher, the saintly Miss Barker who has disappeared abruptly under mysterious circumstances? And whats with all those locks on her front door? And what is that bus doing idling outside her house late at night? When the local priest tries to exorcise Eleanor of her cancer demon, he seems to have unleashed a host of other demons set to torment her. But its the discovery of Miss Barkers body in the Pondage when