Rick's girlfriend from years ago was dead. Murdered. Buried.Or was she? Who was the girl he'd seen at the motorway services? Why washe so sure he knew her? And who had started calling him in the night ...whispering his dead girlfriend's name?In the world of the Mesmer, 'alive' and 'dead' are ambiguous ... the onlycertainty is pain. And when Rick enters that world he must confronteverything he has ever held true, all those comfortable and naive beliefs,if he wants to gets out alive.