Dr. Bicksford A Novel

Dr. Bicksford is a well-known inventor whose current project deals with DNA manipulation in plants. He is reputed to be the wealthiest person in the world. And no one has ever seen him. So imagine their surprise when college students Rachel, Zachary, Chris, Liz, and Sam are hired to do top-secret research for the invisible man. The students are flown to his private estate and immediately given their assignments—Liz and Sam excavating an ancient Egyptian temple, Zachary cataloguing greenhouse contents, and Rachel and Chris analyzing the mysterious bloodweed plant. Upon the students' much-anticipated first meeting with Dr. Bicksford, Rachel is taken aback by his resemblance to the man she has been seeing in her dreams. But there's just one thing: the man in her dreams isn't a man at all, but an alien-like creature with paper-thin skin and razor-sharp fingernails. After several more dreams of and meetings with the mysterious man, Rachel comes to know, understand, and love the misunderstood creature that is Dr. Bicksford. Things quickly become even stranger when Zachary suddenly comes up missing, and it looks suspiciously as though he has purposely gone into hiding. Rachel is completely unprepared for the truth about Dr. Bicksford's past and the reason for her presence at his home, but in order to stay alive and remain with the one she loves, she must face the truth about her beloved Dr. Bicksford.