Take Me, Take Me with You

Lara Quade, a disaffected intellectual associated with a prominent Princeton research center, is a young woman whose physical beauty was scarred by a childhood accident. She is jarred out of her life by a seemingly chance meeting with a young man named Zederick Dewe whom she seems somehow to know, as he in turn seems to know her.
What is the connection between them? Who has brought them together? And why are they drawn so powerfully to each other?
Their encounter leads to a highly charged erotic experience that takes an abrupt turn from tender to violent, from predictable to terrifying. And from this initial episode springs a sequence of inexplicable events and revelations so shocking that they lead Lara, long in denial about her life, to uncover the truth about the buried hurt and rage in the tortured past of her family.