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    "annotation": "<p><span>The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the&nbsp;terrifying disease that causes parents to induce&nbsp;illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove&nbsp;that a child's own mother or father is making her&nbsp;sick.</span><br /><span>Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet&nbsp;her parents rush her to the emergency room night&nbsp;after night with medical symptoms no doctor can&nbsp;explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and&nbsp;deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of&nbsp;devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex&nbsp;Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him&nbsp;that one of them may be a monster.</span><br /><span>Then&nbsp;a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.&nbsp;&nbsp;A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his&nbsp;friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours&nbsp;&nbsp;to uncover the link between these shocking events&nbsp;&nbsp;and the fate of an innocent child.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the&nbsp;terrifying disease that causes parents to induce&nbsp;illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove&nbsp;that a child's own mother or father is making her&nbsp;sick.<br /></span><br /><span>Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet&nbsp;her parents rush her to the emergency room night&nbsp;after night with medical symptoms no doctor can&nbsp;explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and&nbsp;deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of&nbsp;devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex&nbsp;Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him&nbsp;that one of them may be a monster.<br /></span><br /><span>Then&nbsp;a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.&nbsp;&nbsp;A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his&nbsp;friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours&nbsp;&nbsp;to uncover the link between these shocking events&nbsp;&nbsp;and the fate of an innocent child.</span></p>",
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