"Acting Obsessed": a novel of compulsion and romance, stalking and violence in the historic heart of Philadelphia. In Ginger Brossard's life the line dividing obsession from passion is especially thin and easily crossed. As a young and talented actress with a burning ambition to be on the stage, she embarks on a career with a Shakespeare company in Philadelphia, and an actor in the troop soon displays unwanted interest. When she turns his advances aside, meets an intriguing new man, and then receives a costly and beautiful gift from an anonymous admirer, Ginger finds herself entangled in a...

Your first love disappears the day after your first glorious date, and maybe the violence that drove her away, that people are whispering about, was your fault. As years pass, you are fixated on your lost love, committing appalling, obsession-induced emotional blunders. Meanwhile, you and your best friend are about to perfect a radical new technology that will change the world, but your new girlfriend's rich and powerful father wants you and your invention to vanish. Where does it end when obsession and blunders and the promise of a better world implode around you? Back on Hancock Hill, where...