Dr. Chris Shepard is thirty-six years old, newly married, and well on his way to a perfect life--or so he believes. But that future is forever cast into doubt the day Special Agent Alexandra Morse walks into his office and drops a bombshell: Dr. Shepard's beautiful new wife is plotting his murder, in league with a divorce attorney who teams with an assassin to offer clients a quick end to their court battles. Shepard is shocked and unbelieving, but doubts slowly begin to gnaw at him, paranoia magnifies the small cracks in his marriage, and eventually he agrees to act as bait to help Alexandra unravel a scheme that may already have cost nine unsuspecting spouses their lives. But if these people were really murdered, why can't the FBI prove it? As Dr. Shepard and Agent Morse struggle against an elusive adversary, Shepard realizes he's working with a desperate woman--the killer's last known victim was Alex Morse's sister.
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