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As a clinical psychologist and author of an online advice column, Dr. Rebecca Butterman is supposed to help people resolve their internal conflicts-not stir up her own. But when trouble strikes very close to home, Rebecca's investigative instincts make it hard for her to maintain appropriate boundaries...

Dating can be deadly

After her young next-door neighbor, Madeline, is found dead from an apparent suicide, Rebecca can't believe that she, a trained professional, missed the signs. But not everything is adding up... Madeline's mother insists the suicide note wasn't written by her daughter. Rebecca puts that down to denial-until she finds Madeline's blog, a zippy chronicle of dating adventures that suggests anything but depression. When Rebecca's editor assigns her to do a column on the modern singles scene, Rebecca finds herself re-tracing the Madeline's steps into the dating world, looking for clues to the mystery of the young woman's death. There, over-eager suitors are the least of her worries. Dr Butterman is about to discover just how deadly some advice can be...

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