Psychologist Alan Gregory skirts a fine line between professional confidentiality and social duty when he enlists his detective friend Sam Purdy in the investigation of missing ex-client Sterling Storey who has been accused by his wife of killing his lovers.

When psychologist Alan Gregory's best friend is found murdered, he is asked by both the police and his friend's widow to become involved in finding the killer which leads Alan on a deep and harrowing journey of discovery.

Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory gets involved in a vast conspiracy of murder and managed health care when he is called to consult on the case of an apparent suicide attempt by fifteen-year-old Merritt Strait, a girl whose infant stepsister is dying of a rare heart disease.