The secret of the Villa Mimosa

the long version

Was it an accident...or an attempted murder?Dr. Phyl Forster watched the TV news, horrified at the sight of the broken body in the ravine. Then she raced to the hospital to see the victim. Miraculously, the girl was alive, but without name or memory. An irresistible challenge to Dr. Phyl, the psychiatrist who had buried her own past....Detective Franco Mahoney was looking for a killer, without a whisper of a clue. He needed the beautiful psychiatrist to unlock the victim's mind. But he wasn't prepared for the passion Dr. Phyl inspired or the passion that ensued....Elizabeth Adler's riveting novel of erotic obsession and revenge sweeps from San Francisco to Paris, from the Cote d'Azur to a remote Hawaiian island, tracing a tale of murder and madness with roots in a decadent past....From the Paperback edition.