Book Description
Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a video game designer, and
a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend Carol
to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid of leaving her
apartment that the trips are grim ordeals for both women--but
bonding experiences as well.
Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden fear of her own,
a brief but disquieting terror of -- her shadow. The episode
is over so quickly, it leaves her shaken but amused. Then, as
she is about to check her makeup, she realizes she is
terrified to look in the mirror and confront her own face.
As the episodes of this traumatic
condition--autophobia--build, the lives of Martie and her
husband, Dustin, change drastically. Frantic to discover the
trigger for her descent into hell, Dustin begins to look into
the background of a respected therapist. As he comes closer
to the truth about this strange and troubled
"healer," Dustin finds himself afflicted with a
condition even more bizarre and terrifying than Martie's.
No fan of psychological suspense will want to miss this
extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to
torment--and destroy. Dean Koontz once more reveals why he
has, as People put it, the "power to scare the daylights
out of us."