Do you believe in Evil?
Rose Early is searching for her missing sister Joan. The only clue she has is a horror novel with her sister's notes in the margins. The author of the book lives only a few minutes away and Rose can't resist seeking him out. She understands why his book affected her sister: the author creates an evil so palpable it shakes even skeptical Rose.
Vic Drummond, the writer, knew Rose's sister, and agrees to help Rose find her; Rose expected him to be reclusive and strange, but she didn't expect him to be quite so…. Attractive. As their search intensifies, Rose finds herself inexorably drawn to Vic, but it seems to Rose That their felling for each other are being influenced by some outside force---she knows love at first sight doesn't exist.