The year was 1899. The season, Spring. the time of the Mesmerist had come... He was young. He was handsome. He was a stranger in Center City. And no one suspected that his dazzling smile and diamond-hard stare concealed a dark and deadly power—until it began. Then terror gripped Center City like pain mounting to a shattering crescendo of compulsion, madness, and murder. Only he knew how it all would end. And whit it had to be...