Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then, late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the "real" Aubrey, the alluring title character from Gerry's most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no real Aubrey. She's a figment born of a writer's imagination. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick? Or is she Margot, a persistent ex-girlfriend? And why does no one believe that the call even happened? Meanwhile, Aubrey is threatening to visit him, suggesting that she is owed something. Is the threat real? Gerry has never been so alone, so confused - or so terrified.-- Back cover.