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by Veronica Curties-Chen (Illustrator), Mandy Curties Partridge (Author)
Fiction. Adult. Crime. Mystery. Mental Heath. Neuro-Diverse. Suspense. Women's Fiction. Fashion. Body Image. Family Violence.
Locked up, Elise faces what she's "Blocked Out", to get out.
Elise Forsyth is in the Locked Ward again, bruised and cut and strung out on heroin, her gun in the ward's safe. Psychiatrist Natalie Rosenberg helps Elise through trauma-induced Psychosis, and unlocks the doors she has shut around herself. Elise has done something really bad, it's hard to admit to herself, and she has to do one more bad thing to attain her Glastonbury dream.
Elise has the natural good looks and the drama degree to get the acting work, but she's got this amnesia problem, a black-out wasted on drugs problem. She rides around Brisbane on her bicycle, but she'll need another car to get to Cleveland, and Toowoomba. The Hairdresser and the Video Pimp are after her, and now there is Covid 19 and Bad Hair to deal with as well.
Elise talks her way out of the Mental Health ward, and follows her plan. Her modelling work might be getting canceled, but the hot guy from group therapy has lent Elise his car, and he's asked her out to dinner. Remembering her early family violence trauma, Elise searches for her brother, using her contacts and investigation skills to find him as well as herself. Russel from Narcotics Anonymous is trying to live the straight life and wants to help Elise do the same, but is worried by her contradictory stories, her gun and the locked toolbox under her bed.
Her brother Skye is a minor celebrity who doesn't want to be found, and when Elise finds him, he reveals her final secret.
