Judith Nicklaus and her brother Tolik are both infatuated with the reclusive young billionaire Rainer Wasgen, and neither of them believes he murdered his previous five wives. "Love him or loathe him, you'll never forget him. In his character Rainer Wasgen, Douglas William Douglas has created a 'glorious monstrosity' and a mystery that's riveting from first to last suspenseful page." "This contemporary Gothic tale of a corporation's pharmaceutical research gone horribly wrong and a young man's obsession with its enigmatic billionaire president, pulls the reader in with its sympathetically...

Can a dead billionaire commission a painting? Art-forger Albert Spiegel, his boyfriend, and some dogged government agents are dying to find out. German artist Albert Spiegel receives an anonymous letter from California commissioning another forgery of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa. Only Albert's metaphysically gifted benefactor, the powerful industrialist Rainer Wasgen, had known of his previous copy-and Wasgen had perished in a fire over ten years ago. During Albert's quest for the letter's author, he's pursued by ex-Stasi Herr Foxe and by the FBI while his jealous boyfriend, Bjorn,...