Stephen White

Michael McClelland has been sprung from the Colorado State Mental Hospital, giving his psychiatrist, Dr. Alan Gregory, cause for concern. When they meet again, Alan recognizes that the peril McClelland poses is even more potent than his worst nightmare, and more terrifying, for McClelland has managed to learn secrets about Alan's past that he thought had been successfully buried.

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.--From publisher description.

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.