"Fatal Passion", the first novel by Josephine Hurt, a bestseller that has sold over a million copies worldwide and has been adapted into a film by Louis Malle starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, is an ode to erotic obsession, a mystery of the senses, an anatomy of human weakness and self-destructiveness.

A renowned doctor and politician approaches middle age completely devoted to his professional and family duties. Rich and successful, he lives a dreamlike life with his beautiful wife, his ambitious and charismatic son, and his sweet daughter. The encounter with his son's girlfriend, an eccentric and enigmatic woman, will disrupt the tranquility of his settled life. Anna Burton, trapped in a tragic past, will ensnare him in a sickly web of love and lead him into an abyss from which he will emerge destroyed.