Things like this don"t happen to people like us. That"s what Lachlan Harriot thinks as he watches his wife, Susie, led to jail in handcuffs. Yes, Susie, a psychologist, was found covered in blood near the spot where one of her clients appears to have been murdered. But Susie is not a killer, Lachlan thinks. She"s my wife. She"s our child"s mother. Secrets lurk behind closed doors, however, a dark truth made chillingly clear as Lachlan"s efforts to prove Susie"s innocence uncover an entire secret history--illicit affairs, false identities, unimaginable deception--and this brilliantly acclaimed, page-turning novel speeds toward a conclusion as shocking as it is ingenious.