A Perfect Patient

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO BECOME THE PERFECT PATIENT?

Kessa Hartman's life is narrowed by poverty, chronic pain, a dying hometown, and the quiet burden of caring for her ailing mother. Relief feels impossible-until she meets Dr. Cyrus Ashford.

Cyrus is everything Kessa believes a doctor should be: brilliant, controlled, authoritative. To her, he represents escape, safety, and meaning. To him, she is not a whole person-but a subject. A case. An opportunity.

As care slips into control, and clinical distance gives way to fixation, the boundaries between treatment, consent, and desire begin to erode. What follows is a pathological dance of dependence and domination that drives both doctor and patient toward irrevocable ruin.

Told with piercing clarity and psychological realism through dual POV, A Perfect Patient is a slow-burn character study of obsession, delusion, and the catastrophic consequences of power misused. Refusing comfort or easy answers, the novel leaves readers unsettled, mesmerized, and haunted long after the final page.

EARLY READERS SAY:

"This story was like a spider's web-intricate, fascinating, and designed to trap you. I haven't read a book that kept me so completely entranced in a while...It's dark, it's twisted, and it's brilliantly written. Blurred lines between devotion and obsession. Don't expect to feel 'good' when you finish it-expect to feel haunted."
- A. Goodreads ARC Review

"A Perfect Patient is a dark and disturbing read. There are no HEAs and you will hate most of the characters...I loved this book. I couldn't put it down."
- B. Goodreads ARC Review

"A Perfect Patient is dark, twisted, and beautifully unhinged...The plot had me in a chokehold from start to finish-no slow moments, no mercy, just pure addiction."
- S. Goodreads Review

A HYPNOTIC, RELENTLESS, SLOW-BURN DESCENT INTO CONTROL AND THE DARKEST CORNERS OF DESIRE.

READER ADVISORY
This novel is not a romance. It is a transgressive, psychosexual character study that contains complex and disturbing elements. For a list of themes, please see the front matter Preface in the novel.