"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...

The descent into madness of Nancy Brewster at the hands of a manipulative woman who poisons her relations with her children and steals her husband. The events take place in a house by the sea in Massachusetts where Nancy, a society lady from Boston plays host to Isabel March, a visiting poet. By the author of Robert Graves: Life on the Edge.