Gerry Andersen's most successful novel is so captivating that readers insist the title character, Aubrey, is real. Bed-bound after a freak fall, an incredulous Gerry is getting phone calls from his fictional creation. Could the caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry's life? Now here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him, and then he wakes up to another nightmare—a woman's dead body next to his bed—and the terrifying uncertainty of whether he is responsible.

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