NDE, Richmond Hill, ON, 2004, appears 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 1-55321-108-1.  Trade soft cover, 250 pages including preview of next book.  Unread copy; outer page block tanned.  Flat signed by author on title page.  ‘Ann Hobart had spent her life searching for inner peace.  Going to an ashram in India … seemed like the perfect answer.  “I’m going to come back with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Life Force.  I’m going to come back whole,” she told her daughter Stephanie just before she left. … But Ann doesn’t come back from India. … Unable to contact the remote ashram, Stephanie decides to go to India and bring her mother back.  But when she gets there she learns that life on the ashram is about more than spiritual enlightenment.  Two people have already died…’ (from rear wrap)