The New York Times-bestselling author of Falling Awake and All Night Long takes her fans beyond the everyday boundaries of the mind-and the heart-in a compulsively readable new novel of paranormal power deception and danger Petite thirtysomething Clare Lancaster is a Level Ten para-sensitive-and a human lie detector Over the years shes come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talents is likely to have trouble in the relationship department And shes even resigned herself to the fact that everyone to one degree or another hides behind a faxEade And now it seems that meeting the half sister and family whom she never knew until seven months ago was a mistake Her father summons her from California to play a role in his business empire and Clare doesnt intend on making the same mistake twice But after meeting Jake Salter Archer Lancasters financial consultant Clare is convinced that things arent what they seem Salters careful conversation seems to walk a delicate line between truth and deception revealing and resisting Something sparks and sizzles between them-something more than the usual electricity between a man and a woman Caught in a dizzying storm of secrets lies and half-truths Jake and Clare will plunge into an investigation that demands every bit of their special gifts-together they must overcome their mutual distrust in order to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder.