Thorin and his companions must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest without the help of Gandalf. If they reach Laketown, it will be time for Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract; the party msut complete the journey to the Lonely Mountain and Bilbo must seek out the secret door that will give them access to the hoard of the dragon Smaug.

After the dragon Smaug leaves the Lonely Mountain, the people of Laketown see a threat coming as orcs, dwarves, elves and humans prepare for war. Bilbo sees Thorin going mad and tries to help. Meanwhile, Gandalf is rescued from the Necromancer's prison and his rescuers realize who the Necromancer is.

From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting - a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for

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