Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple  with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in  an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on  the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is  devoted to her family and good works. But in the  Fergusons closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must  keep from the world-and her children-at any  cost... Not even the Fergusonss best friends Josie and  Bruce Lehman know of Lynns shame. Social worker  Josie sees her bruises distrusts the  too-ambitious too perfect Robert and suspects the real cause  of the childrens increasingly disturbed behavior.  But not even Josie can pierce Lynns wall of  silence a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is  forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva  Plains searing novel of a familys heartbreak a  womans courage and a subject too often talked  about only in whispers.