Publisher's Synopsis
ARE YOU WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE?; OR ARE YOU A SECRET THAT HAS BEEN SO WELL HIDDEN YOU DO NOT EVEN SUSPECT IT IS THERE?
TROUBLING ... MORE TROUBLING STILL IS THAT SOME MAY HAVE HITHERTOFORE USED YOUR FACE TO COMMIT ACTS YOU WOULD NEVER EVER WANT CREDITED TO YOU. COMPLICATING MATTERS IS THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY HAVE ONCE HAD YOUR FACE, JUST AS YOU NOW HAVE THEIRS, THIS UNHAPPY COINCIDENCE ARISING BECAUSE THERE ARE LIMITS TO HOW MANY FACES A BLOODLINE CAN PRODUCE AND VARY. NO ONE KNOWS YET, OWING TO THE CATATONIA OF ALISTAIR ALLIGOOD, VIRGINIA FINSTERWALD FEELS COMPELLED TO COME TO TERMS WITH THESE MATTERS, THE RESULTS BEING THAT SHE RELUCTANTLY ACCEDES TO THE WISHES OF A PSYCHICK AND A FINNISH MESMERIST WHO INSIST THAT THE ONLY POSSIBLE REMEDY FOR VIRGINIA'S PATRON CAN BE IF SHE VENTURES. INTO THE UNCHARTED REALMS OF THE PSYCHICK NETHERWORLD, THIS IN ORDER TO FIND THAT WHICH ONCE WAS AND WHICH, IN SOMEHOW STILL TRYING TO BE, COULD BE THE CAUSE OF ALISTAIR'S UNDOING. JOURNEYING INTO THE MAZE OF DIMENSIONS JUST BEYOND OUR SENSES, THE FORMER SPY WILL COME FACE TO FACE WITH A TYPE OF ESPIONAGE WHICH SHE HAD HARDLY EVER SUSPECTED TO EXIST: ----------ENTITIES WHO ACTUALLY WHILE AWAY THEIR ETERNITIES BY SABOTAGING AND SUBVERTING THE MINDS OF THOSE SOULS STILL VISIBLY APPARENT!. HERE IS GREAT PERIL, FOR, ONCE VIRGINIA RETURNS TO THE REAL WORLD, THESE FIENDISH BEINGS MAY FOLLOW AFTER HER. FORTUNATELY, SHE WILL NOT BE ALONE, BUT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED IN AND OUT OF THE ÆTHER REALMS BY TRUSTED FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, SOME OF WHOM HAPPEN TO BE ACE EXORCISTS OF THE SERBIAN EASTERN ORTHODOX AND TRANSYLVANIAN OLD RITE ROMAN CATHOLICK CHURCHES. AT THE SAME TIME ... FOUL PLAY IS AFOOT, VIRGINIA'S FRIEND, THE LOCAL SHERIFF, TRYING TO COMES TO TERMS WITH HOW IT IS THAT PROMINENT TOWNSPEOPLE ARE BEING MURDERED, AND YET: ----------NO SIGN OF FOUL PLAY IS EVER UPON THEM, THE ONLY ASCERTAINABLE EVIDENCE OF THEIR UNFORTUNATE DEMISE BEING THE LOOK OF UTTER HORROR FROZEN UPON THEIR FACES. AS THE CLOUDS GATHER IN 'ÝOUR FACE IS NOT YOUR OWN'´, VOLUME II OF THE VIRGINIA FINSTERWALD DIARIES, IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY UNCLEAR WHETHER VIRGINIA WILL MERELY LOSE CONTROL OVER HER BODY, OR WILL IT ALSO BE HER ETERNAL SOUL?!?!?
