Gerry Anderson is an author who's never quite lived up to his hit debut, Dream Girl, a novel whose popularity has only benefitted over the years from speculation around who the novel's heroine, Aubrey, may have been based on. Now back in his native Baltimore, Gerry starts to receive strange letters and phone calls - Can Gerry possibly see through the ever blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him? How can a woman who never existed come back to haunt you?