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I am not the type of man to disappear. Even less the type of man to walk away from a loving wife and three great kids.
Yet, I did. By drifting into a side corridor of the train station, on the way back from a family picnic in the Bay Area.
I had just taken my first steps into an unwilling odyssey that would take me from the basement of an inner-city house to an eerie discovery in a remote Irish villa.
I never had any control over my journey and the four women on which I stumbled along the way—each cycling between friend and foe—did not exactly help matters.
Only when I discovered that I had been pegged as Patient Zero in a massive wave of disappearance of "happy people" did I begin to retake the reins of my life. Or so I thought.
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After erasing himself from his family life in a quiet California suburb, Richard disappears into the vineyards of a remote South American wine estate, where the mysterious and flamboyant Madame offers him an impossible deal: protection in exchange for obedience.
Under her watchful eye, Richard is stripped down and rebuilt. Mind, body, and conscience are reshaped to serve a covert organization guided by a chilling belief: sometimes a little evil can do a great deal of good.
When Richard is sent on his first mission to southwest France, he expects a simple test of his new skills. Instead, he finds himself caught in the early tremors of a global health crisis—and in a web of secrets far more dangerous than Madame ever warned him.
Soon he must choose—between the man he was and the man Madame created.
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Three years ago, Richard walked out of his comfortable American life—his home, his wife, his children—and disappeared without a word.
Now he has found refuge among the vineyards of southwest France, working on a quiet wine estate where the past seems to have forgotten him.
But the estate carries its own dark history.Decades earlier, a brutal tragedy shattered a young woman's life and drove her powerful adversary into secret confinement in the attic of a lonely farmhouse. The scandal faded into rumor, then into silence.
Until old secrets begin to stir again. When strange clues surface, Richard is pulled into a dangerous mystery that refuses to stay buried.
The deeper he digs into the estate's history, the closer he comes to the truth about his own past.
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