Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture...a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide--and her own past...
Like Virginia, PI Cabot Sutter was one of the children in the cult who survived that fire--and only he can help her now. As they struggle to unravel the clues in the picture, it becomes clear that someone thinks Virginia knows more than she does and that she must be stopped. Thrown into an inferno of desire and deception, Virginia and Cabot draw ever closer to the mystery of their shared memories--and the shocking fate of the one man who still wields the power to destroy everything they hold dear.
西雅圖畫廊老闆維吉尼亞．特洛伊花了數年時間與邪惡組織的惡魔鬥爭，晚上一場大火燒死了她的母親。現在她認識的一位藝術家已結束了自己的生命，但死之前還來不及寄送給維吉尼亞最後一張照片…一幅畫讓維吉尼亞懷疑所謂的自殺… 以及她自己的過去....
像弗吉尼亞一樣，皮．卡伯特．夏特是邪教中火災倖存下來的孩子之一，現在只有他可以伸出援手。當他們努力解開照片中的線索時，很明顯有人認為維吉尼亞知情，必須被阻止。維吉尼亞和卡博特被拋入慾望和欺騙的煉獄之中，卻更接近他們有共同記憶的神秘面紗，也觸碰到某個人的驚人命運，而這個人卻掌握權力隨時可摧毀他們所珍視的一切。（譯者/徐琍沂&劉世明）