Hamilton Speke is a successful playwright and composer—an extraordinary creative force. He lives and works on an estate south of San Francisco, secure in a woodland sanctuary where, to his surprise, he receives a visitor from his past, an old friend and former partner. Then everything changed. Speke’s life of celebrity and vision is ruptured by bloodshed and insanity, in a world where it’s revealed that no one, and no career, is far from danger.
A playwright, composer, and the most sought-after celebrity, Hamilton Speke retreats to the enclave of his estate in San Francisco only to be confronted by Timothy Asquith, a man from Speke's youth who claims that Speke is a fraud.
“This fine novel of psychological horror places readers squarely in the middle of playwright Hamilton Speke’s nightmare.” —Library Journal
