In this sensuous and intriguing novel the unexpected appearance of Dean Lily, a charismatic young man with magical gifts, dramatically transforms a once beautiful town in Upstate New York and prompts the age-old question: What do women really want? Dean deftly uses his considerable charms on the local women, and his elaborate seductions are met with little resistance. The women Dean sets his sights on are incapable of recognizing him for who and what he is. THE ILLUSIONIST is a haunting, fiercely erotic novel that thwarts conventions of gender and love.