A woman's desperate search to find out what happened to the daugher who disappeared seven years ago leads her from a quaint collectibles shop in New Orleans into a murky Louisiana bayou and the shadowy ancestral home of an eccentric dollmaker whose "portrait" dolls resemble missing children. Set in the steamy, violent world of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, The Dollmaker is the story of obsession, redemption and a love reborn from the ashes of despair.Author Amanda Stevens is a popular and profilic Harlequin Intrigue writer who pens psychologically driven stories. This is a her debut mainstream suspense novel.