When she left Oxford, Sam Falconer thought she had put the ghosts of her past behind her. A four-time judo champion, she has moved to London and now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency. But when her brother asks her to return to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Sam finds herself confronting the same evils she's tried so hard to forget. For her, Oxford is full of ghosts - and Sam is still haunted by the heartbreaking discovery she made there, of a young murder victim's body. To this day, she has no idea what eerie force led her to the scene - and the closer she gets to Oxford, the more uneasy she becomes. Then out of the blue, Sam receives a letter from a man who's been dead for twenty-eight years - her father.As Sam copes with the emotional chaos, and investigates her case, she finds that every trail leads back to the university. But academia is stingy with its secrets, and its pursuit of truth is sometimes limited by a self-protective instinct that could turn lethal at any moment. Read Less