A brave novel exploring the intensity of connection and betrayal among women friends. Brenda Walker Who is Veronica? What is she so afraid of? Following the birth of her second child, beautiful successful Veronica stops speaking and refuses to see her baby. Her psychiatrist suggests writing as therapy, but although she pours her ghosts and memories into the laptop he brings her, she won t divulge her secrets to him, or anyone. So each night he hacks in through the hospital network and reads what she has written no one, he believes, writes only for themselves. Devotion is a dark tale of psychological cause and effect, of female friendship and jealousy, and of what happens when buried adolescent rage and grief surface.