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Jessica comes to the aid of Dorian Beecher (Thom Bray), a shy poet who is the prime suspect when his tormentor (Barry Williams) is found dead.

Only after arrival at Wenton, Vermont does Jessica learn she was asked by an orphaned literary protégé, Dorian Beecher, who succeeded as boys boarding school poetry teacher due to the car accident-drowned of Gretchen, daughter of Dorn Van Stotter, to play Dorian's 'mother' to impress his employer, Wenton Academy's pedigree-obsessed owner, Edwin Dupont, whose daughter, Sarah, he loves, rivaled only by the studly riding instructor, Nate Findley, an obnoxious womanizer. Walking home after an embarrassing fight in a pub with Nate, Dorian is run down by the disguised headless horseman he always assumes to be Nate, on his black stallion, Gunshot. Sheriff Rankin jails Dorian after Nate's decapitated corpse is found nearby, clumsily redressed as the horseman. Jessica sifts two plots for secrets and motives, involving an anonymous school funds embezzlement note, the secret society of mischievous schoolboys Todd Carrier, Robert and Brendan and a past crime.—KGF Vissers

Jessica visits a young friend, poet Dorian Beecher, who teaches at a private school in Vermont. Dorian is madly in love with Sarah Dupont, daughter of the school's founder, Edwin Dupont. Actually, Dorian hasn't been entirely honest with Jessica as he's been telling Sarah she's his mother. Dorian is also being bullied by the school's handsome riding instructor, Nate Findley, who takes pleasure in ridiculing him over having apparently seen a headless horseman riding through campus. When Findley is found dead after an altercation with Dorian in a local restaurant, it's left to Jessica to find the real killer.—garykmcd