Ted Hammond loves a mystery, and the face he sees in the window of an abandoned farmhouse is a good one. It's almost enough to distract him from the other mystery he's trying to solve—how can his one-room schoolhouse, with only five students, stay open next year?
At first there seems to be no connection between Ted's two mysteries. But Ted soon learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the mystery of the face in the window may just be the key to saving his school.