Actress Jacqueline Ramsey has it all?beauty, stardom, and a figure other women would kill for. Behind her dazzling success is one person: Dr. Hume, head of the nation's most exclusive diet clinic. It was his unique medical weight-loss technique that gave her the body which has become her obsession.

But now, something is terribly wrong.

Suddenly, inexplicably, her weight is rising. Her sleep is tormented by hideous nightmares. Her days are tortured by uncontrollable, frenzied cravings. Her life and career are falling apart. Terrified, she runs back to Dr. Hume as he knew she would.

For Dr. Hume's chilling treatments have merely begun.

Only Jacqueline's psychiatrist lover suspects the truth. And only he can save her from the same horrifying fate that awaits all the stunning women who trust their bodies to Hume's healing hands.