Maarriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead... but Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right-and what lengths will he go to in his attempt to rescue her? With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor Hannah Willis couldn't have come at a worse time. her decision to reconcile with her philandering ex-husband is only marginally less surprsing than Banecroft and his wife getting back together, but in this time of crisis, is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by a celebrity cult the best thing for anyone? As if that wasn't enough, one of the paper's ex-columnists has disappeared- a particularly impressive trick seeing as he never existed in the first place.