Folie à Deux: Mermaid Aslyum Book 2 (The Mermaid Asylum)

By Mary Widdicks

Cressida is back. And this time she's not alone...The police ruled Vee's death a suicide: the desperate act of a woman obsessed with the legend of The Mermaid Asylum. But Cressida knows better. Addictions are hard to kill.It's been two months since Cressida abandoned her life, her psychology practice, and her buried memories back in the eerie fishing town of Silverside, Oregon. Freed from the death-like grasp of dreamless sleep, Cressida's new existence is interminably ordinary. Her cavernous downtown Portland apartment is walking distance from the lounge where she tends bar, trading her old, troubled patients for even more troubled customers and drunken damsels in distress. It's exactly the kind of life Rex wanted and Vee would have hated. The only catch is, it's all a lie. Unable to escape from her newfound, vivid dreams of Vee, Cressida inhabits the dead girl's identity. Everyone in her new life knows her as Viola Marquis, even Emmaline, the untamed teenage neighbor girl that has grown unusually attached to Cressida. Rex is in prison, a part of Vee lives on, and Cressida finally has a full life. That is, until Cressida's old life comes knocking at her door in the form of Silverside Police Officer John Lahey, and her dreams take a turn for the worse.Black outs, missing items, unexplained bruises and injuries plague Cressida each morning when she wakes. It's as if Cressida's mind is no longer her own. And when a series of deadly fires seems to implicate both Cressida and Emmaline in crimes Cressida can't remember committing, she begins to suspect that someone is setting her up.Cressida must find out who is sabotaging her new life before she ends up arrested, dead, or worse?lost and alone again in the darkness of her dreamless sleep. Folie a Deux is a glimpse into the mind of a desperate woman. Is Cressida a killer, a victim, or just another lost soul searching for a human connection?like everyone else? Psychological fiction at its finest, it will keep you guessing until the very end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732976236
• ISBN13: 9781732976238
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Outmanned Publishing LLC
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"