Among the guests is Sharon Ransom, beautiful but troubled - and Alex's former lover. She is in desperate distress, but Alex is reluctant to revive unhappy memories. A few days later Sharon is found dead, a presumed suicide. But Sharon's is just the first death. Others will follow, all linked to one man - Dr Paul Peter Kruse, a power-junkie with a sinister sexual hold over women. Alex's curiosity to discover the truth leads him further and further into a chlling maze of cover-ups, police corruption, insanity, and a decades-old Hollywood murder...