As one of New York's top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow
sees everything from the abused to the depraved. The
Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary where she tries to
heal these battered souls.
The Scarlet Society is a secret club of twelve powerful and
sexually adventurous women. But when a photograph of the
body of one of the men they're recruited to dominate --
strapped to a gurney, the number 1 inked on the sole of his
foot -- is sent to the New York Times, they are shocked and
frightened. Unable to cope with the tragedy, the women turn
to Dr. Morgan Snow. But what starts out as grief counseling
quickly becomes a murder investigation, with any one of the
twelve women a potential suspect.
The case leads Detective Noah Jordain -- a man with whom
Morgan has shared a brief, intense connection -- to her
office. He fears the number on the man's foot hints that
the
killings have just begun. With her hands tied by her
professional duty, Morgan is dangerously close to the
demons
in her own mind -- and the flesh-and-blood killer.