The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy， the??terrifying disease that causes parents to induce??illness in their own children. Now， in his most??frightening case， Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove??that a child s own mother or father is making her??sick. Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones??is bright， energetic， the picture of health. Yet??her parents rush her to the emergency room night??after night with medical symptoms no doctor can??explain. Cassie s parents seem sympathetic and??deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of??devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex??Delaware is called in to investigate， instinct tells him??that one of them may be a monster. Then??a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.??A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his??friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours??to uncover the link between these shocking events??and the fate of an innocent child.