When a newcomer moves into a previously sedate Florida community, bizarre and deadly events occur. Neighbors are suspicious of her unusual lifestyle. But is that really the cause of the troubles, or is something more sinister brewing? One homeowner will determine the reason his fellow neighbors should be afraid. A young star from the professional golf circuit accepts a challenge from an eccentric owner of a course in upstate New York to play on the back nine holes. However, with its unique traps and hazards, he will discover that this course is like no other he has ever played on, and that he is playing for more than just money this time. The wife of a college professor, and a student-athlete form an unlikely duo to investigate the shadowy and ghostly hauntings in and around the monuments of Princeton, New Jersey and its Ivy League University. Florida has a problem with its citrus crop, particularly the "greening" of its oranges. When two experts from the State's Department of Agriculture are dispatched to find a solution to a serious case in DeSoto County, none of their training could prepare them for what they discover is the cause of the disease. These four novellas, and a bonus short story, will quench the thirst of any reader parched from searching for fine horror. These stories are not to be consumed while operating an automobile, or heavy machinery, or by those wishing to get a restful night's sleep.