Uncharacteristic Behaviour

Writers naturally have vivid imaginations, but when romance novelist Joanna Boden hears the local legend about the mysterious disappearance of a young woman forty years earlier, her fixation with the story takes over her life -- and her writing style, which becomes alarmingly dark.

When human remains are found in her own garden, she knows she can never go back to her old life -- carefree, predictable, secure and -- let's face it -- rather dull.

The final outcome of her research is unlike anything she could have imagined, even on one of her better writing days.