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  Ferguson''s closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must  keep from the world-and her children-at any  cost... Not even the Fergusons''s best friends, Josie and  Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn''s shame. Social worker  Josie sees her bruises distrusts the  too-ambitious, too perfect Robert, and suspects the real cause  of the children''s increasingly disturbed behavior.  But not even Josie can pierce Lynn''s wall of  silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is  forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva  Plain''s searing novel of a family''s heartbreak, a  woman''s courage, and a subject too often talked  about only in whispers.