A talented, troubled young woman named Kirsten Pearson, daughter of a well-known Cincinnati psychiatrist, disappears, and Harry Stoner is hired to find her.
When Julia Fox's husband and step-daughter are found murdered, Lomax, her lover, works to prove her innocence and uncovers dark secrets about the family.
Two extraordinary boys begin dreaming the same symbolic dream. One is known as the demon boy, the other is a healer associated with his minister father's evangelical crusade. Somehow they must free each other from the manipulations of greedy exploiters.
Deb Ralston of the Fort Worth police department investigates the murder of three women who had many acquaintances in common, including fellow Mensa members.