China's Locked Doors: A Gripping Phycological Suspense Thriller

By Nora Pierce

At 3:14 AM, the smart-home cameras went blind for exactly four minutes. When they came back on, her life was gone.

High-end real estate broker CeeCee Pierce thought her biggest problem was her tech-expert husband, Tim, being a world away in Tokyo. Then she wakes up to freezing temperatures, a bleached-clean room, and her housekeeper vanished without a trace.

Her sister, Khloe, says she's losing her mind. The doctors say it's a medication-induced psychiatric break.

They are both lying.

Locked inside a windowless psychiatric ward on a fraudulent 72-hour hold, CeeCee uncovers the terrifying truth: this isn't a breakdown. It's a meticulous, months-long conspiracy orchestrated by her own sister to steal her real estate empire, murder a local judge, and frame Tim for the kill.

Armed with a smuggled burner phone and an improvised weapon, she has exactly eighteen hours to break out of a high-security medical facility. If she fails, the star witness boards a private jet to Costa Rica, her husband faces federal charges in a foreign prison, and she never sees the outside of a padded room again.

They thought they locked away an unstable woman. They're about to find out they backed a predator into a corner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMFYV4B7
• ISBN13: 9798160682389
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"