The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the**terrifying disease that causes parents to induce**illness in their own children. Now, in his most**frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove**that a child's own mother or father is making her**sick. Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones**is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet**her parents rush her to the emergency room night**after night with medical symptoms no doctor can**explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and**deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of**devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex**Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him**that one of them may be a monster. Then**a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.**A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his**friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours**to uncover the link between these shocking events**and the fate of an innocent child.