Emma Milsom thought a job with director/playwright Teddy Winters would help her put her life back together. She hadn't counted on the presence of British actor Sebastian Brand in the dilapidated old theater.

Sebastian was the foremost actor in horror films, adept at playing monsters of every sort, and his behavior in real life wasn't much of an improvement. Rumors of accidents and death followed him, and Emma should have had enough sense to keep her distance.

But Sebastian was mesmerizing, and just as obsessed with her. As the accidents began to escalate, Emma didn't know whom to trust. She just knew it shouldn't be Sebastian.

Was he trying to seduce her, or kill her? Or perhaps both.

(Previously published in a Silhouette Shadows anthology)