When Rebecca Jennings moves into Decker Hall on the campus of Granger-Weiss University she has no idea she's moving into a fifty-year-old mystery. She soon learns that the room she occupies has been vacant since 1955 when it was the scene of a young girl's apparent suicide. Frightening events quickly engulf Rebecca. Are they really happening to her or are they only cruel tricks of the mind? How is a noted churchman involved? Is there something sinister in his past? How does all this involve Rebecca and her new love? Based on the story of the "haunted" Decker Hall at Gardner-Webb University

A violent sadist has been appointed a deputy sheriff by his uncle, the alcoholic and corrupt county sheriff, who runs a drug-smuggling and bootlegging operation on the side. When the sheriff's nephew decides to steal the land of some local "half-breeds", a young deputy in the department decides it's time to stand up to him.