The voice belongs to a woman， but Dr. Alex??Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven??years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed??a hospital help line for comfort--and found it in??therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young??heiress is desperately calling for psychologist s??help once more. Only this time it looks like??Melissa s deepest childhood nightmare is really??coming true ...??Twenty years ago， Gina Dickinson， Melissa s??mother， suffered a grisly assault that left the budding??actress irreparably scarred and emotionally??crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of??prison and back in L.A.--and Melissa is terrified??that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again.??But before Alex Delaware??can even begin to soothe his former patient s??fears， Gina， a recluse for twenty， disappears. And??now， unless Delaware turns crack detective to??uncover the truth， Gina Dickinson will be just one??more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned??madness--and murder.From the Paperback edition.