In New Mexico, a woman psychiatrist blocks the release of a convicted killer on grounds that he is a sociopathic madman. The ruling incurs the wrath of the convict's father, a state senator, and of the convict's brother who starts stalking her.

Shortly after she returns to her hometown, Nadine Raines' former therapist is found dead in his office, and the detective on the case suspects she's involved.

Ruth Hartland is the director of a trauma unit, a psychotherapist with years of experience, wise and respected by her peers. The mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never "fit in," disappeared a year and a half earlier. Enter a new patient, Dan -- unstable and traumatized -- who looks exactly like her missing son. Ruth's complicated feelings about the dissolution of her marriage...

"Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientèle. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions...