Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-420) and index.

Part one : doors of perception

Into the woods

A place in the whirlwind

Son of a preacher man

Connecticut Genesis

A new disease and a ring of fire

Finding Lyme's counterculture

Hide in plain sight

The epidemic spreads

Crossing the line

The rocky road

Then there were three

Night falls fast

Discovering the spirochete

The chasm widens

How the Lyme world split in two

Lost in the ruins : the infestation of the suburbs

Part two : the Lyme diaspora

Mutts like us : Lyme tests and tribulations

Patients dispossessed

The scourge of "Lime" disease

Peeling the onion

Family therapy

Bicycle boy and other lymebrains

A devastating realization

Longing for Lyme

A Nantucket burning : I'm diagnosed with Babesiosis

Photo safari

Tick menagerie : the coinfections of Lyme disease

Hole in the donut : the fight over Southern Lyme

Restricting diagnosis and keeping the riffraff out of Lyme

The long road home

Reporting our pediatrician

The Lyme inquisition : doctors on the run

A note from the underground

Second-chance kids

Part three : a search for answers

Once bitten : accepting the spirochete's endless love

Secrets of an evil genius : the evidence for persistence

Mother makes four

The big sleep : our younger son falls ill

Houston calling

Putting treatment to the test

Busted flat in Chappaqua

Resurrection

Lyme disease and immunity : the search for the golden fleece

How I cured my own Lyme disease

Pay it forward

A family affair

Red-flagged at blue cross : the role of managed care

The vaccine connection : Lyme gets a business model

Over and out, Colorado

The Falmouth reunion

Getting Dr. Jones

The never-ending story : what happened to my family

Starting over : don't get slymed again

And the bands play on