Damaged Goods: A Dark Psychological Thriller with a Killer Twist

YOU CAN'T OUTRUN YOUR DEMONS WHEN THEY'RE LIVING INSIDE YOU.

Sage Wellington has built her life around control. As an elite trainer at Manhattan's exclusive Verve Health Club, her carefully structured routine keeps the trauma of her childhood locked safely away—until Vanessa Reid walks through the door.

Her new client is everything Sage respects: disciplined, knowledgeable, and eerily similar to herself. When Vanessa shares her story of narrowly escaping a predator who "collected perfect bodies," it triggers something dark in Sage's suppressed past.

Then a fitness model is killed, and Sage makes a horrifying discovery: evidence placing her at locations she doesn't remember visiting, including her unexplained presence near the crime scene. The dissociative episodes she thought she'd conquered years ago have returned—and with them, the terrifying possibility that during her blackouts, she's become the very thing she once feared most.

As more evidence mounts, Sage must confront the unthinkable: has her fractured mind turned her into a killer, or is her enigmatic new client playing a more sinister role in her unraveling?

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