<DIV><P>Psychologist Madeleine LeBlanc has spent her whole career trying to determine the cause of her father's schizophrenia. She always felt that if she could unravel the disease's origins, she could cure the man who left her and her brother, Marc, to practically raise themselves on the Louisiana Bayou. When Marc takes his own life, Madeleine embarks on a shocking journey into her family's history—fraught with dark secrets, conjured demons, and a powerful relative who puts Madeleine's own life and property in peril.  The only way to she can save herself is to face the ghosts of the past, the dangers of the present, and the twisted ladder that links them all together.</P></DIV>