Olivia Simon is the emergency room physician on duty when
a female gunshot victim is brought in. The woman has been
shot through the heart. Olivia must act quickly, and the
decisions she makes in those few minutes threaten her
career and cost her marriage. Midway through the
controversial surgery, Olivia learns the identity of her
patient--Annie O'Neill, the woman with whom Olivia's
husband, Paul, is obsessively infatuated. Annie dies
during the surgery.
Annie's death has a devastating impact on the lives of the
three people who had come to idealize her. To her husband,
Alec, she was a loving wife; to Paul, perfection: and to
Olivia, a rival to be emulated. Their worship of her
threatens to destroy them all. Only one person has the
power to free them from their obsessions. Only one person,
the keeper of the light, knows the devastating truth about
their beloved Annie.