An American Tale

Charlottesville, Virginia.

Vanilla Hamilton has lost herself. She doesn’t even know her own name.

Awakening from a coma after a freak car accident, the university student is horrified to have no memory of the fiercely protective Grandmama sitting by her hospital bed. While she struggles to reclaim the past, she’s aghast to learn members of her prominent family have been dropping like flies.

To speed recovery, Grandmama admits her to a posh rehab center. Vanilla’s hope for refuge turns desperate when her treatments grow more and more severe. Disturbing fragments from her former life begin to emerge in the shadows of her mind. Her deceased brother. Her accident. A conspiracy targeting her family. Is she merely a paranoid patient? Or is something more sinister afoot behind the traditional halls and locked doors of The Center?

Forced to confront her identity head-on, Vanilla begins to suspect that The Center’s treatments have another motive. And the more she resists, the greater pain she must suffer. . .