Sometimes the baton of a conductor holds the sharpened edge of a blade. The baton of The Madam is such that spills blood. When this conductor's manservant abducts an angelic harpist named Celeste for his employer's next amusement and artistic endeavor; the house and estate fill with not only beautiful music, but all the torment and flames of hell. A chilling tale of orchestrated pain and dark romance, woven into a literary melody of heated torture and sacrifice.

The soul of the unborn is amphibian. The aborted child of Norma will not live alone. Especially without Mother. If only the soul could be exorcised as easily as the flesh. The ghost would have no water to breathe, or salt to resurrect within the broken body of Norma. Isaac wants to live and feed. Again and again.