 
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
  
 At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex Delaware  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 she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next  day she is dead, an apparent suicide.
  
 “A complex and  haunting story of tangled personalities, deeply buried family secrets,  and of violence lying thinly under the surface . . . hits the reader  right between the eyes.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
  
 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 ultrarich, into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood  terrors still hold sway.