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From Edgar nominee F. R. Tallis comes his latest tale of psychological suspenseand a brilliant reinvention of the ghost story.When promising young psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime by the charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland, he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk, Richardson doesnt look back. One of his tasks is to manage Maitlands most controversial projecta pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. If this radical and potentially dangerous procedure is successful, it could mean professional glory for both doctors.As Richardson settles into his new life, he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patientssix women, forsaken by society.