She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone…

Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble – quite literally – upon one of Arthur’s many secrets.