Dr. Joel Ashman, a young widowed psychiatrist, narrates two interwoven stories. One follows the fatal beating of his mentor Stanley Kolberg, and the other the suicide of a tragic young patient, Angela Connor. A year apart, the deaths are seemingly unrelated. But as the investigation into Kolberg’s murder wades into an ugly world of sadomasochism and patient abuse, the relevance to the death of Joel’s patient grows. And after the murder of a second psychiatrist, Joel realizes he is on a crash course with someone willing to do anything to conceal the past…
Mass Market paperback Forge Books ISBN: 978-0-765350-83-1 May 2007 $9.99 (US$7.99)