When healing becomes horror.
Maya thought she'd found salvation in Dr. Elena Voss's revolutionary trauma therapy program. After months of crippling PTSD from a devastating car crash, the "Empathic Healing" support group promised something no traditional treatment could: true understanding from people who had walked through their own hell.
The six participants share everything—their nightmares, their triggers, their deepest wounds. Under Dr. Voss's guidance, they break down the walls that trauma builds, creating bonds deeper than friendship, deeper than family. For the first time since the accident, Maya feels whole.
But the memories bleeding into her dreams aren't her own.
Dr. Voss calls it a breakthrough. Maya calls it a nightmare. Because when you can no longer tell where your suffering ends and someone else's begins, are you still yourself?
Or have you become something else entirely?
A chilling exploration of the price of connection and the horror of losing yourself in someone else's pain, that cuts straight to the bone of what makes us human.
Perfect for readers of psychological horror from Liane Moriarty, Linwood Barclay, Dean Koonz, Stephen King, and anyone who thought group therapy couldn't get any more terrifying.
Genre: Horror
Maya thought she'd found salvation in Dr. Elena Voss's revolutionary trauma therapy program. After months of crippling PTSD from a devastating car crash, the "Empathic Healing" support group promised something no traditional treatment could: true understanding from people who had walked through their own hell.
The six participants share everything—their nightmares, their triggers, their deepest wounds. Under Dr. Voss's guidance, they break down the walls that trauma builds, creating bonds deeper than friendship, deeper than family. For the first time since the accident, Maya feels whole.
But the memories bleeding into her dreams aren't her own.
Dr. Voss calls it a breakthrough. Maya calls it a nightmare. Because when you can no longer tell where your suffering ends and someone else's begins, are you still yourself?
Or have you become something else entirely?
A chilling exploration of the price of connection and the horror of losing yourself in someone else's pain, that cuts straight to the bone of what makes us human.
Perfect for readers of psychological horror from Liane Moriarty, Linwood Barclay, Dean Koonz, Stephen King, and anyone who thought group therapy couldn't get any more terrifying.
Genre: Horror
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