Imagine slipping back into time. It's 1972 and Professor William Bates takes a sabattical to clear his head and his heart. The story he's hoping to write is sidetracked for something much more sinnister by the ghosts and demons that haunt this area of Iowa. The love he's hoped for is just acoss the lake, but twenty-seven years in the past. Babies are heard crying in the night at the house by the lake. Odd things and unexplainable tales follow the Professor through this novella and the love that follows him is even more bizarre.