Standalone Novelette
The Appointment
A Domestic Thriller
She listens to other people's secrets for a living. Today, she has ten minutes to confess her own.
Dr. Lena Mitchum has spent thirty-four years building a safe, perfectly controlled life. A respected clinical psychologist, a loving mother, a marriage she trusts. But safety is an illusion, easily dismantled by the quiet click of a deadbolt.
At 3:00 PM on a Friday, her final patient arrives. Beth Carson doesn't want therapy. She wants the truth about a murder that happened thirty-four years ago.
Beth has locked the office door. In a claustrophobic room where every word is a weapon, giving up her darkest secret might be the deadliest move of all.
A real-time domestic thriller about trauma, survival, and the price a child pays for keeping her family's worst secret. Perfect for fans of locked-room mysteries and ticking-clock suspense. For readers of Gillian Flynn, Alex Michaelides, and Freida McFadden. The doctor is in.