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But when the storm passes and the body vanishes, the authorities refuse to believe the claims.
When lightning strikes a tumbledown tomb, she glimpses a corpse that doesn\'t belong among the crumbling bones.
Grieving the loss of her son, she seeks out the company of the dead, taking comfort amid the ancient headstones and crypts of the local churchyard.
In a quiet village in the wild lands of the Scottish borders, disgraced academic Cordelia Hemlock is trying to put her life back together. 1967