The much-married Madeleine Harrod is a beautiful and talented
woman obsessed with death. She sees
things no one else sees. As one of the
best forensic artists in the country, she visualizes the face of an
unidentified skull before she reconstructs it.
She owns Appledorn Exploratorium, which makes spooky scientific toys for
a global market. Her oil paintings of
dead people -- haunting and expensive -- sell nationally.
Despite her success, Madeleine is troubled. She hasn’t been her old self since, at the
age of eleven during a picnic at the Dunes, she tried to rescue a girlfriend
carried away by a riptide. Her
psychiatrist and old-world beau, Dr. Beltrami, is more Svengali than
healer. She suffers from nightmares and
sleepwalking and believes she has lived many other lives.
And then, at the peak of Madeleine’s success, a strange man in
yachting clothes begins following her, mysteriously appearing where he’s least
wanted. “Captain Ahab” threatens to
reveal a secret about the accident at the Dunes. Though Madeleine carries the marks of his
violence on her wrist, no one else believes he exists -- until he murders
another of Madeleine’s childhood friends.
One by one, the people closest to Madeleine are found dead. Can the illusory Captain Ahab be stopped
before he kills again?
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