Evil stalked the halls... By day, Cottonwood Hall was an eerie, whispering monument to dread. By night, terror took shape and walked the dark hallways of the psychiatric rest home housed in an antebellum mansion . . . and frightened the unlucky to death. Nurse Amanda Matthews worried that her patients weren't getting well. Instead, they were mysteriously dying. Beneath the moaning cottonwoods, there was only one man she could trust. Only Dr. Len Percy had the strength to share the dreadful secret of Cottonwood Hall. Was it a ghostly specter? Or an evil earthly cause? Amanda had to know what was scaring her charges to death--even if it meant her own.