Trouble always had a way of finding Seamus Van Leer. Growing up in the rough and tough village of Bradford made his struggle for the straight and narrow path impossible. At the age of twenty-one, his life plunged deeper into sorrow when his parents died in a car accident. With nowhere else to go, Seamus moved to the slum of Bradford--Wiley G. Estates. He felt that living amongst the garbage of Bradford was a fitting, self inflicted punishment for his role in his parents' death, along with the Elnors'.

Seamus was faced with more hardship once he discovered his factory--Rising Sun Rubber--was closing its doors, permanently. After receiving the news, Seamus drowned his sorrows at his favorite bar, the Hollow Grove. Seamus thought that he had found love when he rescued Elizabeth Krantz from her attacker, but, as time passed, he questioned her intentions toward him.

As the visits between Seamus and Elizabeth grew far and few, he visited the Hollow Grove more often. Each time he returned to the bar, he noticed strange and unusual events transpiring in and around the place. However, the strangest thing he encountered at the place was the enigmatic Roland Hiser.