"New to the bucolic small town of Maple Creek, Linnet Shellwin looks forward to teaching at the local middle school and enjoying her picturesque pink-and-white Victorian home. But her exciting new life soon proves far from inviting. A disconnected phone keeps ringing at odd hours in a house that Linnet discovers is haunted by murder. Someone poisoned the previous owner with arsenic-laced cherry tarts. Soon, the hang-up calls carry a disembodied voice warning her of danger. Is this a cruel trick ... or something supernatural? As the students in her fourth-period class at school turn from unruly to downright dangerous, Linnet isn't sure if she's going crazy or being stalked. But with time running out and danger closing in, she knows that, real or not, someone--or something--wants her dead"--Publisher.