Eleanor Kurtz has been busy. Spreading lies about her husband. Manipulating her teenage daughter into seducing a man nearly twice her age . Blackmailing her daughter's lover. Kidnapping, torture, even murder. Eleanor's malevolence knows few limits. Quite the resume for someone who doesn't exist.
Eleanor's corporeal deceit would surprise Matt Phair. He's broken bread with Eleanor and through his indiscretions has abdicated free will to her. She's why he plans to murder her husband. She's the reason an innocent man Matt turned to for help is now dead, and his impetus for befriending her daughter, Kim .
The moral corruption that followed was his own doing. A weakness born from isolation, leaving him vulnerable to a criminal relationship he didn't see coming. Once his savior, Kim is now his downfall.
Matt's world unravels, exposing that which he knew to be true — Kim's love — as fiction. A deception meant to ensnare him and ensure his fealty to Eleanor. Matt's left with only questions as he struggles to extricate himself from a web of lies and deceit. No question more vital than one he doesn't know to ask. If Eleanor, too, is a fiction, then who's behind all this?
