Maggie Evans has disappeared from her hospital room. She was so weak she could barely lift her head, but at nightfall, she managed to escape from her hospital room in the time it took her nurse to walk into the hall to page the doctor.
Where could she be? Why is she gone?
Barnabas knows. He has Maggie hidden away in the old manor house.
Barnabas has begun recreating his former life, starting with the homestead. Furniture. Carpets. Lighting (all candles as the home has no electricity). A commissioned portrait identical to the one of Barnabas that hangs in Collinwood. He is also recreating his long, lost love.
Once upon a time, Josette, the great love of Barnabas, threw herself from the cliffs in order to escape the evil she discovered he had become. Maggie is being molded into the new Josette. Barnabas traps her in his home, dresses her in Josette’s wedding gown, gives her Josette’s music box, keeps her in Josette’s splendidly redecorated room. He tells her that Maggie Evans never existed. That she has always been Josette. Maggie, in her weakened state, believes she is Barnabas’ love.
The town searches feverishly for Maggie. Some of them question Barnabas at his home. Several times they missed seeing her by seconds. Sam and Joe nearly walked in on her. David speaks to her, thinking she is the ghost of Josette.
Will the spell ever be broken? Can someone bitten by Barnabas ever truly return to their previous life?
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