"Joanne Kilbourn is not sure about her friend Jill Osiowy's new fiancé. Evan MacLeish is a celebrated documentary filmmaker whose projects exploit the lives of those closest to him. His two previous wives committed suicide, and Joanne fears the same emotional rigours he put them through await his new wife. Joanne's uncertainty about the marriage turns to alarm when she finds out that Jill is marrying not for love, but to become the step-mother of Evan's daughter, Bryn, whom he has been filming since her birth. When, only hours before the wedding, the best man disappears, Joanne's reservations about the marriage transform into genuine fear for her friend, for Bryn, and ultimately for herself."--P. [4] of cover.