When history professor Jill Bowman learns of her husband s murder in a seedy motel room, she knows he had no business being there. Not the serious, sincere psychiatrist Peter Freytag the man she d known so intimately. Enveloped in grief, Jill struggles to piece together seemingly impossible events, and slowly she learns Peter s secrets. But Jill discovers dark parts of herself as well secrets she d never known she was keeping. Soon she must reexamine her relationships with her family, her students, her mentally ill daughter, and the detective handling Peter s case to whom she is inexorably drawn."