Vicki Nelson has received the call that no daughter ever wants to receive�that her mother has died. Marjory Nelson�s coworkers at the Queen�s University Life Science Department told her that she suffered a heart attack, and that they�d be waiting for Vicki to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what begins as a personal tragedy turns into the most terrifying case of Vicki�s career, when her mother�s body disappears mysteriously from the funeral home. Someone at the University is determined to learn the secret of life after death�and they�ve decided to make Vicki�s mother part of their horrifying experiments.