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Martie Rhodes is a happily
married, successful video games designer, and a compassionate woman who,
twice a week, takes her agoraphobic friend, Susan Jagger, to therapy
sessions; although each trip is a grim ordeal, it has also been a
bonding experience that has brought the two friends even closer
together.
Then one morning, Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own. She
suffers a brief but disquieting terror of...her shadow. She sees
something twisted in it, something not right. Other anxiety attacks
quickly ensue... until Martie discovers she is afflicted with one of the
rarest and most intriguing phobias known to psychology: auto phobia, a
fear of oneself. Because of the astonishing and terrifying ways in which
this phobia manifests itself, Martie's life changes suddenly, radically
– and her future looks dark.
Martie's husband, Dusty, is a rock for her. He loves her profoundly, and
he becomes desperate to understand the nature and cause of her
autophobia. But as Dusty comes even closer to the terrible truth, he
himself begins to exhibit symptoms of a psychological disorder, even
more unusual and frightening than that affecting Martie...
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