Abigail is asked to accompany her sister, Mandy, and Mandy’s boyfriend, Scott Wright, on a tour of a building in nearby Saunders. Abigail’s boyfriend, Mark, is invited to come along as well. The building used to be a laboratory that closed under mysterious circumstances when its owner seemingly disappeared some years ago.
With her history of finding dead bodies in unusual places, Abigail is somewhat hesitant to agree, but she’s very quickly assured that dozens of people have been through the lab since it went on the market and there are definitely no dead bodies there.
After completing the tour, the group stops to take a closer look at the small library in the missing man’s office. When Mark removes a book from the shelves, the wall slides away, revealing a hidden study. And a body. The missing man has been found, but he hasn’t been dead for long. Now everyone in both Nightshade and Saunders wants to know why he left, where he’s been, why he returned, and how he ended up dead inside a hidden room in his own laboratory.