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Doctor Allyson Whitney, a self described renowned specialist on the treatment of the truly psychotic mind, finds herself in a very unfamiliar situation. She has developed feelings for a new patient, one that is handsome, intelligent, aloof and yet, sexy and disturbing.
Her connection with the new patient soon takes a turn for the strange and she wonders if she will be able to keep her professional life intact. We wonder if she ever really did...
Written by Rebecca Milton
Published by AmorBooks
What follows are excerpts from my notes compiled at the McCovey Asylum.
Henry was the physical embodiment of insanity. He was all neurosis, all psychosis, all pathologies and sociopathies combined. He was dangerous, cunning, highly intelligent, deeply disturbed by past life emotional distresses. He was deluded. He was the most terrifying man I had ever seen come into the hospital. He came with guards behind him. He came with an air of control and power that I had never experienced from any other patient I had worked with in my entire career. A career, I may note, that had spanned three decades of study and practice with the criminally insane and the abnormally psychotic. I was and still am, an expert. I have seen, heard, read and studied all forms, all manifestations, of insanity and yet, I was not…