Jonathan Nasaw
Jonathan Nasaw is the acclaimed author of Fear Itself and The Girls He Adored, both Literary Guild Selections. He lives in Pacific Grove, California.
Lily deVries suffers from DID, a psychiatric condition known as dissociative identify disorder. Triggered by a devastating childhood trauma, her mind has fragmented into different personalities known as 'alters'. There's the gentle, child-like Lily, the sexually aggressive Lilah and Lilith - the violent psychopath. Now she's found herself in the Reed-Chase mental institution where they're hoping to find a cure.
But there's another patient undergoing treatment at the Institute. Fellow DID sufferer Ulysses Maxwell faces life imprisonment for the rape and murder of more than a dozen women. When Lilith and Max (Maxwell's psychopathic alter) meet, the reaction is dynamite.