Forbidden kisses, obsession and the definition of insanity
Mara
As a psych nurse at Wellard Asylum she has seen a lot in her day. She has always been the good girl, slowly climbing up the ladder of employment by following the rules. By having such a career driven focus Mara has never had any time for romance…except for longing looks and secret closet mo
Two women. One asylum. Deadly secrets.
When nineteen-year-old Ginny’s mother abandons her at Wellard Asylum, she isn’t sick. She’s pregnant. Behind the iron gates patients cower, the rules are broken, and the basement hides evils that would make monsters squirm. Ginny only has one goal: keep her baby safe, no matter what.
Nurse Nancy once believed hospitals were for healing the vulnerable. At Wellard, she’s learned to keep her head down while the powerful play god. That is, until Ginny shows up. Young, scared, and pretty, Ginny gets under Nancy’s skin fast. Protecting a patient means stepping out of orchestrated lines, and Nancy will be forced to choose where her loyalty lies.
As storms gather, Ginny and Nancy are pulled into a tightening spiral of control, lust, and institutional cruelty. And sometimes, the only way out is to become the worst thing you can imagine.
Dark, visceral and relentless, UNWELL is a psychological horror novel exploring the descent into the places we lock people, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify holding the key.
Open the gates to Wellard, but be careful, few ever escape.
ments with her sisters alluring boyfriend. There is something inviting and mysterious about him. Will the taboo taste of his body become too much to deny? When Maras sister ends up killed and the evidence points to none other than her sisters boyfriend , Mara has to learn to break some rules to get him free from a prison she knows all too well; The asylum she works for.
Jinx
There are dark secrets surrounding Jinx. His dead girlfriend is but one of them. The obsession to claim Mara for his own has grown so much more than those few forbidden moments. Jinx has become a mask of himself, succumbing to his need to break all the rules. It’s amusing to him watching Mara desperately cling to answers that she can clearly see the truth in. Her denial is his salvation. Can he escape his addiction to the one thing holding the key to his true freedom…or will she be his permanent damnation?
A primal chase of denial and addiction. Who killed Mara’s sister? Can She free Jinx from the accusations? Will the truth set them free…or burn them in the end.
