Twin sisters Dorcas, a woman of certain sexual appetites, and Abigail, prim and virginal, find themselves targeted by predatory poet Conrad, who finds in the sisters a challenge to test his skills as a manipulator and seducer.
Living for the writing class she teaches at the university extension, reclusive widow Amy Gallup senses something different about her latest group of students when she begins to receive scary phone calls and obscene threats that culminate in a murder.