Judith Nicklaus and her brother Tolik are both infatuated with the reclusive young billionaire Rainer Wasgen, and neither of them believes he murdered his previous five wives. "Love him or loathe him, you'll never forget him. In his character Rainer Wasgen, Douglas William Douglas has created a 'glorious monstrosity' and a mystery that's riveting from first to last suspenseful page." "This contemporary Gothic tale of a corporation's pharmaceutical research gone horribly wrong and a young man's obsession with its enigmatic billionaire president, pulls the reader in with its sympathetically drawn characters caught in an undertow of mystery and suspense."