Professor Montana Dickerson is distraught and determined to seek justice when the body of one of her favorite students, an exchange student teacher from Great Britain, is discovered in a pumpkin patch near the western Pennsylvania Whitfield University campus. In her search for the killer, old ghosts and guilt are dredged up from Montana's own international experience in India thirty years earlier. In her search for clues, Montana is forced to suspect some of the people she knows and cares about the most. The shocking conclusion leaves Montana reeling and forces her to come to grips with her own past mistakes.