Georgiana Snipes has a 'drug and alcohol problem' to phrase it in the parlance of the times. A brilliant musician from an abusive upbringing in Brooklyn, Georgiana has a stormy past and a very uncertain future. When Willem Furey awakens on the floor of Morgan's warehouse in Manhattan, with no money, identification or any idea how he got there, he has no choice but to follow Georgiana on a weird and unfolding adventure. After an old fortuneteller refers to her as the Wicker Woman, they realize a dire fact, that her addictions and wild behavior has reached critical mass. The novel is about her strange and enigmatic transformation back into becoming a human being and the inhabitants of Maison Magenta are inextricably drawn into the morass. Meanwhile, the hideous man without eyes continues to relentlessly stalk Willem, culminating in a horrendous confrontation.The Wicker Woman is the third book in The Shade series, M. E. Nyberg's ongoing series about the invisible side of existence and it's strange, mystifying and oft times unnerving effects upon the living.