Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNae when an unstabletheotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knohen to give in-and when to ju work-and sooraphobic mother, still traumatized by the break-in after all these years, and her precocious seven-year-old, Carly It&39;s exactly that heady coe and sensitivity that first attracts Duncan Swift to Phoebe After observing her coax one of his e this intriguing, take-charge wo solo, but Phoebe&39;s discovering that no ath And when she&39;s grabbed by a man who throws a hood over her head and brutally assaults her-in her own precinct house-Phoebe can&39;t help but be deeply shaken Then threatening es show up on her doorstep, and she&39;s not just alaro face-to-face with an opponent who refuses to look you in the eye? Noith Duncan backing her up every step of the way, she must establish contact with the faceless tore to fearbefore she becomes the final shon