The Serenity Nearby

<p>Veronica Hockmeier's relationship with her girlfriend/PhD supervisor is on the rocks. A graduate student has died by suicide in her English Department. And her eating disorder has returned with a vengeance. All Veronica wants to do is get out of town for a weekend and when her paper is accepted at an academic conference on Emily Dickinson in Dickinson's hometown of Amherst Massachusetts Veronica takes this as a good sign.</p><p><br></p><p>On the way there she is greeted with calamity after calamity: an accident on the road a person from her past and what appears to be the ghost of a graduate student in her hotel room. When a friendly hotel worker named Bo Wu shows her some kindness Veronica can't help but fall for the tall woman with a winning smile-even if she does have a creepy collection of items dead patrons have left behind.</p><p><br></p><p>When Veronica's passport goes missing and another body turns up at the hotel she becomes trapped in a nightmare she can't escape from-not without Bo's help.</p><p><br></p>