After a vampiric nocturnal encounter with a mysterious female apparition who infiltrates his dreams, iconoclastic film director Simon Mercer enters an elusive world of masked identities and erotic games of increasing danger. His struggle to reclaim himself spirals from the set of his Hollywood thriller to a lakeside Seattle mansion, where art and excruciation intertwine. In the contemporary literary novel "Scar Flowers," primal questions are acted out as physical tests: Do you desire me? Can I trust you? Will you be faithful? Love and death are the most dangerous realms. Nowhere else are we so naked—or so human.

After a vampiric nocturnal encounter with a mysterious female apparition who infiltrates his dreams, iconoclastic film director Simon Mercer enters an elusive world of masked identities and erotic games of increasing danger. His struggle to reclaim himself spirals from the set of his Hollywood thriller to a lakeside Seattle mansion, where art and excruciation intertwine. In the contemporary literary novel "Scar Flowers," primal questions are acted out as physical tests: Do you desire me? Can I trust you? Will you be faithful? Love and death are the most dangerous realms. Nowhere else are we so naked—or so human.