Delight Thorpe is thrilled when her only surviving relative, Ziba, her uncle's widow, invites Delight to come to Boston to live with her. Ziba has taken over her father's business which Delight believes to be an apothecary. She is horrified to find that the family business is actually a mortuary and embalming school. In addition to her shock, she discovers that the school, Bram House, conceals a poisonous mystery behind the exterior of an embalming parlor. Medical students hungry for cadavers engage in midnight marauding...and even hasten their victims' deaths when it fits their wicked agenda. When the depraved killers figure out that Delight knows their secrets they come for her. She finds herself in a fight for survival and, if she loses, she and an innocent child will be the next victims.