The Patient Enemy

Naomi Barrett is twenty-nine, three months off a nervous breakdown, and the only forensic accountant on staff willing to audit the estate of Dr. Marcus Trey. He is sixty-one. He is famous. His wife drowned in their pool last summer, and the death was ruled an accident. He calls Naomi at eleven at night to ask about her mother. He knows her sister's name. He knows the name of a therapist she saw once, for six weeks, ten years ago. He has never met any of them. He wants her to think she is losing her mind. She thinks she is being studied. A slow-burn, tightly-wound psychological thriller about the age gap between a patient predator and the woman he has underestimated.