Fire on the Water: A Companion to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The internationally acclaimed romance for those who dare confront the horror of true love.Rachel an American biographer researching the life and work of Mary Shelley is consumed by the escalating threads of her investigation. Shards of Shelleys creation are exhumed from the past. Aspects of Frankenstein are incised and ripped from the nineteenth century and transplanted into our own.The archival records within Château de Chillon give some insight into a life long gone. It is however the contents of a document trunk that has remained unopened for generations that discloses what truly occurred in the idyllic Swiss village of Montreux to jolt the monster into existence.Rachel is drawn into the centuries-old conversations as she attempts to discern fact from fiction but she is repeatedly disrupted by a man of gigantic structure of uncommon beauty of intriguing origin.