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Psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with both a newly adopted son and a shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then his ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help locating the missing surrogate mother of her soon-to-be-born child, and Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years--with ramifications that are disturbingly current.

In a community theater in Boulder, Colorado, a man is tortured and left to bleed to death atop a concert piano. Psychologist-investigator Dr. Alan Gregory, a friend of the victim, finds that the man's belongings point to a mysterious hidden life. By the author of Higher Authority.

"It has been many years since the mayhem was unleashed in Privileged Information. Now Michael McClelland, the brilliant, determined murderer introduced in the first Alan Gregory novel, has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital - and he's coming after Alan's family. The timing couldn't be deadlier; like a wounded animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland...

Dr. Gregory is starting to feel settled, hopeful that a long period of upheaval in his private life is behind him. He refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, where a beguiling new patient captivates him, but the interlude of calm doesnt last. Devastating fires are threatening Boulder. Alans dear friend Diane is showing signs of a long-simmering emotional collapse. And Alans most pressing fear - the exposure of a dangerous secret...

Buried beneath the snows of the Colorado Rockies. Filed away in the annals of unsolved crimes. The grisly double murder of two teenage girls who went out one crisp autumn evening only to be found the following spring, their young bodies mutilated. A crime that left two families and a quiet mountain community irrevocably scarred.

Psychologist Alan Gregory's life begins to unravel when one of his female patients is found in an apparent suicide and the local paper begins printing accusations from an unnamed source of sexual impropriety between the woman and Dr. Gregory. The quest for the truth that rapidly intensifies when more of his patients die untimely deaths, and he suspects not only that the deaths are related but that another one of his patients may be somehow involved....

Alan Gregory is finally beginning to feel settled, hopeful that a long period of upheaval in his private life is behind him. He refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, where a beguiling new patient is challenging his values. The interlude of calm doesn't last, of course: Alan's dear friend Diane is showing signs of a long-simmering emotional collapse, and Alan's greatest fear, the exposure of his most dangerous secret, has become...