Psychotherapist Kate Huntington is rocked to the core when one of her favorite clients commits suicide. How can this be? The woman, who suffered from bipolar disorder, had been swinging toward a manic state. The client's family blames Kate and they're threatening to sue for malpractice. She can't fault them since she blames herself. How could she have missed the signs?Searching for answers for herself and the grieving parents, Kate discovers some details that don't quite fit. Is it possible the client didn't take her own life, or is that just wishful thinking? Questioning her professional judgement, and at times her own sanity, she feels compelled to investigate. What she finds stirs up her decades-old ambivalence about the Catholic Church. Is her client's death somehow related to her childhood parish?When she senses that someone is following her, she wonders if she is truly losing it. Or is she getting dangerously close to someone's secrets?