Scarecrows that guard a dangerous secret and a woman who believes she has brought her dog back to life add up to a frightening and deadly month for Jennet Ferguson. In October, a month for frightful happenings in Foxglove Corners, Jennet Ferguson discovers a dozen scarecrows set up behind a vacant house on an isolated country road. Are they simply harmless fall decorations or harbingers of evil? Meanwhile, a woman believes that she has brought her dead dog back to life by scattering her ashes in the garden. She seeks to draw Jennet into her delusion.