Susan Hinshaw

Surgeon Simon Thorne suffers from paranoia, obsessions and hallucinations, and loses both his wife and his job. But then he meets a couple from one of his dreams where they kill him. So he has to kill them first.

Two sisters who share a tragic, unspeakable secret...A young man consumed by a bizarre psychosexual fetish...A world at once dreamlike and dreadful into which they irrevocably pass. The mythical phoenix took its own life by fire only to rise again. Can flames of destruction promise ashes of renewal for these three tortured lives? Their search for an answer will prove to be a macabre and hypnotic journey...and a very strange love story.

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.