The bestselling author of When The??Bough Breaks， Blood Test，??and Over The Edge delivers the??most stunning novel yet and featuring??psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a??controversial Los Angeles sex therapist， Alex??encounters a face from his own past--Sharon Ransom， an??exquisite， alluring lover who left him abruptly more??than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that he??desperately needs help， but Alex evades her. The??next day she is dead， an apparent suicide. Driven by??guilt and sadness， Alex plunges into the maze of??Sharon s life--a journey that will take him through??the pleasure palaces of California s ultra-rich，??into the dark closets of a family s disturbing??past， and finally into the alleyways of the mind，??where childhood terrors still hold sway. Also available on BDD Audio Cassette.From the Paperback edition.