When what's virtual becomes real and vice versa.
Mark Weir has never quite got over his ex, Violet who married someone else. When he hears she’s had an accident, has lost her short term memory and spends much of her time in the virtual world of Second Life he creates an avatar and sets about finding her. He acquires weapons and a lonely piece of land and then puts his plan into action.
The novel is about obsession, memory, romantic imagination – all states of mind which can lead us away from the responsibilities of the physical world and create a virtual world in which our sense of identity is likely to become fractured and delusional.