<p><b>Love can be a truly terrible thing.</b><br><br>Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.<br><br>Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of <i>The Stranger Times</i>, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her?<br><br>With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn''t have come at a worse time. It speaks volumes that her decision to reconcile with her philandering ex-husband is only marginally less surprising than Banecroft and his wife getting back together. In this time of crisis, is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by a celebrity cult really the best thing for anyone?<br><br>As if that wasn''t enough, one of the paper''s ex-columnists has disappeared, a particularly impressive trick seeing as he never existed in the first