Who are the toymaker, the child-killer, and the magician? When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, suspicion falls upon one of her neighbours, Leonard Miller, whom the police discover has a cloudy past. In an effort to clear his own name, Miller must investigate the girl's disappearance. It's a journey that will take him from the teeming crowded dosshouses of Blackfold to a crumbling mansion nestling in the remote foggy marshes. There he will encounter a house full of the horrifically insane and the terrible answers to the child's disappearance.

This provocative book challenges two of psychology's primary assumptions: 1) clients get better due to the power of techniques and 2) psychotherapy is a scientific discipline that functions in fundamental reality.