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How much may a mother visit protect her family from the madman?An unparalleled master of psychological suspense, Joy Fielding has created her most chilling and elaborate book yet--a compulsively readable consider the razor-thin line between everyday domesticity and nerve-shattering terror.It needed to result in blood.  Family counselor Kate Sinclair, healer of lost spirits, ideal wife and mother, has abruptly become caught in a nightmare of her own.  Her teen-age child has just found sex, lies, and rebellion.  Her ex-partner has returned to jeopardize her marriage.  Her after-tranquil neighborhood is being awakened by chilling statements: An other woman is missing.  Kate may sense the night Collecting around her, may see the errors, the problems, the absent pieces.  She is scared of what tomorrow may bring.Enter Colin Pleasant, a guy on trial for abducting and killing thirteen women--the fine, "misunderstood" sociopath Kateis struggling sibling ideas to marry.  Colin enjoys women to death.  He can not wait to see Kate and girls again.  One dim evening once they are home alone, disarmed, prepared for sleep,