Lauren Kelly, with amazing power and authority, explores the secret
kinship of "soul mates," in a mysterious and demonic love
story.

Lara Quade, a disaffected intellectual associated with a prominent
Princeton research center, is a young woman whose physical beauty
has been scarred in a childhood accident. She is jarred out of the
routine of her life by a seemingly chance meeting with a young man
named Zedrick Dewe, whom she seems to know somehow as he in turn
seems to know her. What is the connection between them? Who has
brought them together? And why are they drawn so powerfully to one
another? Their encounter leads to a highly charged erotic
experience that takes an abrupt turn from tender to violent,
predictable to terrifying. And from this initial episode springs a
sequence of inexplicable events and revelations so shocking that
they lead Lara, long in denial about her life, to uncover the truth
about the buried hurt and rage in the tortured past of her
family.

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