Jasper's persistent paranoid ideas and episodic illicit drug use push him to extremes. His family struggles to cope with his declining health. His wife disappears in suspicious circumstances. His children, Faith and Delaney, end up in foster care, where they are a challenge for any foster parent. As they grow up, they show similar traits to their father, being cunning, intelligent and, at times, ruthless. As the years roll by, the siblings reunite. Their lives are different, but genetics has not given them an easy path. Both enter group therapy, but when other participants are murdered and their bodies mutilated, everyone becomes a suspect. A suspense fiction novel of 70,000 words.