Even to case-hardened Detective Sergeant Pete Decker the brutal rape of Lilah Brecht, the exquisite daughter of an aged Hollywood movie queen, is a disturbing act of violence. The only indication of the attacker’s identity comes from the victim’s own description: a lead soon shattered when it emerges that Lilah, the highly intelligent owner of a glamorous Los Angeles health farm, did not physically see her rapist. Though blindfolded, Lilah explains that, aided by her gift of second sight, she was able to ‘image’ her attacker and proclaims that Decker, sympathetic, reassuring and an expert in sexual- and child-related crime, is the only policeman who can truly understand and help her.
Decker, whose wife Rina is heavily pregnant with their first child and who is anxious to protect her from Lilah’s alternately seductive and hysterical phone calls, is not so sure. And he is sceptical when, based on no evidence except her own unique perceptions, Lilah insists her attacker is threatening her - and her family - once more. But when Decker himself sees Lilah almost killed in a bizarre and horrifying accident,meh begins to think he may have judged her too harshly.
