Amelia Prentice, a forty-something high school English teacher comfortable in her predictable routine, regains consciousness after tripping over the corpse of a former student in the safest of places, the public library. Returning to the classroom, she tries to pretend nothing happened. But when it becomes obvious that the victim s death wasn t an accident and she is now a murder suspect, she realizes that her cozy small-town life in New York s Adirondack region will never be the same. Crazy things begin to happen: The victim s mother disappears. Amelia s friend Lily is thrown overboard from the Lake Champlain ferryboat. A mysterious millionaire from Montreal seems determined to buy Amelia s house. The school nurse is viciously attacked by a student. Amelia s old beau Gil suddenly seems determined to rekindle their romance. Amelia is carjacked, and of course, there s the Lake Champlain Monster . . . It will take all Amelia s wisdom, humor, and faith to figure out what s going on and embrace the new life that lies ahead. If she survives."