The Sanity Trap

By Max Alter

She witnessed a murder. Now her own mind is the crime scene.

Janet Stewart waited three years for her husband to come home. Their reunion was supposed to happen at a luxury San Francisco hotel-not inside a nightmare.

But from her balcony that night, she sees something impossible: a famous psychiatrist bludgeon his wife to death.

And he looks up. He sees her.

Hours later, Janet is sedated, diagnosed with "dissociative psychosis," and admitted to the killer's own clinic-NeuroVale, a cutting-edge institute where memories are rewritten, not healed.

Her husband, Paul, wants to believe her. But the clinic's VR therapy doesn't just question her sanity-it rewires her neural data. Every scream is labeled a hallucination. Every flashback, a glitch. The system is flawless. The gaslighting is surgical.

And the murderer is her lead psychiatrist.

As Janet fights to hold onto the truth, Paul begins to doubt. The clinic's head nurse, Elaine, watches from the shadows-calculating whether to save herself or bury Janet forever.

Because at NeuroVale, the most dangerous prison isn't a cell. It's a diagnosis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVMM3TQM
• ISBN13: 9798254418511
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"