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Never Break Character: The Mind Behind the Mask
Paperback
Series: From Real Crime to Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Laura Price is brutally murdered in her own bathroom, the evidence seems overwhelming. Her nineteen-year-old daughter, Marissa Alvarez, is found with the murder weapon, her hands covered in blood, and injuries consistent with the attack.
But Marissa says she is not Marissa.
She insists she is sixteen-year-old Natalie Morales, claims she has never lived in Vista Verde, and refuses to acknowledge the mother she is accused of killing.
Detective Ray Cortez quickly realizes that something about the girl does not fit. Her answers are immediate. Her story seems rehearsed. Her emotions appear strangely controlled. And every attempt to break through her story reveals another layer of uncertainty.
A murdered mother.
A daughter who denies her own identity.
A detective who suspects the truth is being deliberately hidden.
A psychiatric diagnosis that may explain everything.
And a question that refuses to go away: is she genuinely suffering from a severe mental illness, or has she learned how to make the world believe that she is?
Never Break Character is a gripping fictional adaptation inspired by a real crime, about murder, deception, psychological manipulation, and one woman's extraordinary attempt to hide the truth behind a carefully constructed mask.
Read carefully. Trust your instincts.
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