A long-missing novelist, a string of murders and a new brand of heroine fire Permanent Fatal Error, a sexy, Hitchcockian literary thriller. Everett Hyde: a reclusive cult-writer extraordinaire, once regarded as the voice of his generation, now presumed dead. Chase Alger: an award-wining biographer specializing in studies of famous people-writers all-who've come to mysterious ends; a self-made man with his own ambiguous past. Ashley McKnight: Chase's lover, an aspiring young novelist. When Chase receives an offer to write Everett Hyde's first sanctioned biography, and Ashley agrees to accompany him to the remote estate of the mysterious author's equally reclusive daughter, sinister things begin happening around them...