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Publisher: Notion Press
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
WHY
By Neha Trivedi
What happens when the person who understands human darkness best becomes consumed by her own? Vera Ashwood is a forensic psychologist. She is brilliant, controlled, and dangerously detached. She studies people for a living, mapping their motives, cataloguing their behaviors, and understanding exactly what makes them break.
She has always believed she stands outside the experiment. Until she meets Eli Vance.
Eli is everything Vera is not. He is warm, patient, and quietly devoted to restoring what others have abandoned. Where Vera dissects, Eli mends. Where she observes, he feels. And for reasons she cannot explain, he sees something in her worth saving.
Their connection is undeniable. Unexpected. Unsettling.And doomed. Because Vera doesn't fall in love.She studies it. Manipulates it. Ends it.
But this time, when the experiment reaches its inevitable conclusion, something goes wrong.
What starts as control turns into obsession.What should feel like closure becomes something else entirely. Grief, guilt, and a question Vera cannot escape:
Why?
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