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Containment - A Cindy Lou Butts Mystery: Prequel to Deadly Healer - A Cindy Lou Butts Mystery - Book 1
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Series: Cindy Lou Butts Mystery, Book 1
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Publisher: Cindy Abrahams
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She's telekinetic (it that were real)
She's psychic-when she's not overwhelmed (if that were a thing)
She's a total klutz who can trip over air...
And she might be the most dangerous healer you'll ever meet
Cindy Lou Butts was never meant to live a normal life.
She feels things other people miss.
Sees patterns that shouldn't exist.
Moves objects when her control slips.
And when she's focused?
She can heal... or destroy... with terrifying precision.
That's exactly why a shadow agency recruited her. Managed her. Used her. And why they're not ready to let her go.
Now Cindy is injured, overstimulated, eating constantly just to keep herself grounded-and being quietly watched after an assignment that went sideways... and a betrayal she didn't see coming.
Then everything changes.
Her sister Sandra has been arrested for murder. Cindy doesn't question it. Sandra didn't do it. But proving that means stepping back into a system that already sees Cindy as a liability.
Back in Placerville, nothing about the case holds. The evidence doesn't behave. The psychology doesn't fit. The story keeps shifting.
And Cindy-part intuitive, part forensic mind, part barely-contained force-knows exactly what that means:
Someone is manipulating the outcome.
The more she pushes, the clearer it becomes:
- This wasn't a random murder
- The investigation is being steered
- And the people who trained her?
They're still watching... and still interfering
Cindy has spent her life trying to control her abilities. Now they're the only thing she can trust. To clear her sister's name, she'll have to:
- Stop suppressing what makes her different
- Face the betrayal that changed everything
- And walk away from the agency that built her... before they shut her down for good
Because Cindy Lou Butts isn't just solving a murder.
She's breaking containment.
Set before the events of Deadly Healer, this is the moment everything changes.
If you love:
- Fierce, unconventional female leads
- Psychological mysteries with a supernatural edge
- Small-town secrets hiding big systems
- Characters who are as powerful as they are unpredictable
Then you're going to be hooked.
Start reading now-and meet the woman they couldn't control.
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