Book summary

The author of the critically acclaimed WAKING THE MOON ventures into the realm of mainstream literary fantasy with this powerful work about the thin line between creativity and lunacy. In the mid-19th century, a beautiful, maddening (and probably mad) woman named Evienne Upstone serves as a devouring muse to various pre-Raphaelite artists and writers and their contemporaries, inspiring great works but also driving them insane. In the present day, a beautiful, strange woman named Larkin Meade who has spent some time in a mental hospital both maddens and inspires contemporary musicians, artists, and writers. Could Evienne and Larkin be the same woman? If so, just what is she?