The day before Halloween, Jonathan Carlyle moved into hiscottage on the beach. The cottage had been empty for all the years that TheElusive Cat next door had been open. He just showed up one day. He sat on hisporch in the cold winds. And then he vanished. A haunted soul who touched alltheir lives with his presence and his disappearance. But why had he come? Andhow did he leave? Or was he dead?