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For Dr. Marissa Hayes, a therapist to the elite of Sugar Land, Texas, control is everything. It’s in the engineered silence of her triple-paned office windows, the meticulous order of her life, and the professional fortress she’s built around herself since a devastating divorce. But her carefully constructed world is shattered when a single, elegantly penned letter is slipped under her door. It begins as a confession, a poetic cry for help from an anonymous writer who claims to have “burned the stage down” on a life that was a lie. The words are unsettlingly familiar, echoing Marissa’s own private feelings. Soon, one letter becomes a campaign of psychological terror. A second note appears on her locked condo patio, quoting the cruelest, most intimate words from her divorce. A third, tucked under her windshield wiper, promises to unearth a secret she has buried for fifteen years. With her tires slashed and a formal complaint threatening to destroy her career, Marissa is trapped in a paranoid maze where every client is a suspect: the volatile CEO with a rage problem, the fragile housewife obsessed with escaping her gilded cage, and the brilliant, unnerving new patient who seems to see right through her defenses, analyzing her as if she were the one under observation. As the attacks escalate, moving from psychological torment to physical threats, Marissa is forced to confront a single, traumatic event from her past—a stormy night on a lake and a secret she thought was long dead. To unmask her tormentor, she must untangle a web of masterful manipulation where everyone is a pawn in a larger, more sinister game. But as the truth begins to surface, Marissa discovers that the enemy isn't just trying to ruin her life—they're trying to rewrite it, and make her believe she is the villain of her own story. Comparable works include Gone Girl