Almost twelve years ago, American Joanna Rand arrived in Japan to become a singer in a nightclub. In all that time, she has never been able to escape the strange dream that haunts her night after night. Each time she awakens, she feels violated, used and terrified. Alex Hunter knows that Joanna is not who she thinks she is, because he has seen her before -- in photographs of a senator's daughter who disappeared twelve years ago. And there is only one way to unlock the dark secret of her soul ...