Better Dead Than Yours

He is her most dangerous patient.
She is his most captive audience.

Sabrina is one signature away from quitting her job at the Gasset Psychiatric Center when she meets Apollo. Disfigured, magnetic, and deeply unsettling, he refuses to let her leave without hearing his final story. Apollo claims he was the closest confidant of Silvio Jones-the rock legend who died three weeks ago. And he swears he is the one who killed him.

What starts as a routine evaluation quickly becomes a dangerous obsession. Behind the hospital walls, Sabrina uncovers a maze of contradictions in Apollo's story. But the real danger isn't his past-it's the dark, inevitable attraction drawing her closer to his door.

Meanwhile, the building guards other sins: a young patient desperate to confess to a crime no one believes, and a veteran doctor who has carried an unopened letter for twenty-five years without daring to read it.

As Sabrina crosses every professional boundary, the questions begin to fade, replaced by choices she can never undo. She believes she is the one person Apollo has told the truth to.

She has not yet asked herself why he chose her.