Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world's most popular mystery and thriller writers. He contributed his expertise in clinical psychology to more than 40 novels, all of which became New York Times bestsellers. A practicing psychotherapist and professor of clinical pediatrics, he is also the author of a number of scientific articles and a three-volume textbook on psychology. Winner of many literary awards. The method of the talented psychotherapist Grace Blades is to cut to the living without causing pain. It was thanks to him that she achieved success even in the most hopeless cases. And also to my terrible childhood. The bloody death of her parents right before her eyes, wandering around orphanages and foster families... Grace knows from her own experience what she treats people for - shocks, phobias, loss of hope... As for her past, it is completely under control. She was sure of this - until the day she met one long-forgotten person. And this meeting made her into a patient herself...