The day I returned to templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in lake glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a ...The day I returned to templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in lake glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical fiction novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how one town holds the secrets of a family. In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair with her married archeology professor, Willie Upton Arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-baptist mom, vi, still lives.