"SO IMAGINATIVE, INTRICATE, AND ELECTRIFYING that readers will be tempted to race through the novel."

--Associated Press

"A chase novel and a metafictional fun ride that, like much of Straub’s work, takes genre elements and twists them into something unexpected."

--Time Out New York

"A twisting, fast-paced plot."

--USA Today

Willy Patrick, respected author of the award-winning novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind. One day, she is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse. She knows somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building-- an impossibility, for Willy’s daughter is dead.

On that same day, author Timothy Underhill, who has been struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his nine-year-old sister, April. Soon after, he begins to receive eerie, fragmented e-mails that he finally realizes are from people he knew in his youth--people now dead. Like his sister, they want urgently to tell him something. When Willy and Timothy meet, the frightening parallels between Willy’s tragic loss and the story in Tim’s manuscript suggests that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.

PART ONE Willy’s Losing Her Mind Agaln/So Is Tim

PART TWO Two Volces from a Cloud

PART THREE TheRoleof TomHartland

PART FOUR Tim UnderhIll Sails to Byzantium/So Does WIlly

PART FIVE The Woman Glimpsed at the Window