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As a psychiatrist, Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest, but she has demons of her own, some she can barely think about, and some she can't even remember. Nadine's mother was a wildly unpredictable manic depressive, her father an alcoholic, and there are whole chunks of Nadine's life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years.

After she's attacked outside her office, Nadine decides to take a job at a hospital in Victoria as a staff psychiatrist. It's the perfect opportunity: She won't get as attached to her patients and she'll be closer to her daughter. But when a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought in to the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her--and learns of some troubling parallels to their lives. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her own history, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group's leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today?

In "New York Times" bestselling author Chevy Stevens's" Always Watching," as the dual stories unfold, Nadine finds herself drawn to uncover her own secrets and learn why you can sometimes leave the past, but you can never escape.

Contributor: Chevy Stevens