"Eerie to the max. Hitchcock would have loved the creepy, delusional, manipulative character of Michael." - New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown Unrequited love. Sounds romantic, doesn't it? But what happens when a stalker falls in love? "The Number of Man" is a short story by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison. It first appeared in the anthology LOVE IS MURDER, edited by Sandra Brown.