the moment she needs Val Hunter Carolyn blicks married life becomes to her unravel until she is torn apart by erotic deaths she can neither resist nor control. Val Hunter has as imposing a physical appearance as she is an artist's talent no longer willing to deny her submerged Indonesia of her sexual self becomes locked in a combat with Paul Blake who fights to save his marriage with every weapon at his command said in Los Angeles summer 84 as contemporary as today's headlines any merchant a green turns with conflict it scenes of sexual Discovery and unpresented it is Katherine Forest most powerful novel