内容简介：
Has-been novelist Marsha Tucker has been kidnapped by a character in her 18th-century historical romance. Is he an obsessed fan like a "Trekkie gone Branch Davidian"? Is he an actor paid by a former boyfriend to torment her? Or is he truly a manifest product of her imagination, a character known as "The Spoiler," who feels abandoned and betrayed? Forensic traces of a 200-year old tincture and the mystery of a missing heroine in Marsha's novel lead New Orleans Detective Renee Savage on the search for the missing author, but will she have to track back in time to find her?