Dorothy Hardy and Ann Lee have two things in common. Both are social workers with connections to the Calderbank Children's home. And both have been abducted.Could their disappearances have anything to do with the child abuse scandal centered around the home? Is some sort of vendetta being waged against the local council staff?But there is another link between the two women -- their former colleague Dr. Christine Radcliffe, a sophisticated, self-possessed consultant psychologist.When the prime suspect becomes Christine's foster brother it becomes clear that the psychologist herself is nursing a dark, violent secret from her past...