Family therapist Kate Sinclair, healer of lost souls, perfect wife and mother, has suddenly become trapped in a nightmare of her own. One of her teenage daughters has just discovered sex, lies and rebellion. Her ex-boyfriend has returned to threaten her marriage. And her once-peaceful hometown is being awakened by chilling headlines: Another woman is missing. Kate can sense the darkness gathering around her, can see the mistakes, the missteps, the missing pieces.Enter Colin Friendly --a man on trial for abducting and killing thirteen woman--the handsome, "misunderstood" sociopath Kate's troubled sister plans to marry. Colin can't wait to meet Kate and the girls. And one night when they are home alone, ready for bed. . .From the Paperback edition.