The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally
murdered. The town’s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls
in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury’s hospital, searches desperately
for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings’s devastating nightmares. Afraid that
she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya’s parents have turned
to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling
images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly,
her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents.
Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya’s crude drawings, only
to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies
forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.