The Quiet Lady

When street-rat Chrissie Gossier's memories are carefully wiped away at the hands of her enemies, the woman left behind is a shell of who she once was.
They give her a new name, a new house, a new life, but behind those hollow black eyes, fighting to live behind her new identity as Adele Vernian... Chrissie Gossier bleeds her rage into the wreckage of her own mind. A festering, broken memory, a dying dream enraged at her own approaching death.

Between these two identities vying for dominance in one body, a strange and powerful beast who remembers far more than Chrissie herself lurks beneath her bones. Waiting for their enemies, waiting for war. This creature holds Adele and Chrissie together with a single thread, but it lays in Adele's uncertain hands. An impossible choice: give this thread of control to the raging woman named Chrissie, or snap it. Should she let Chrissie die, and accept who she is now?

Even as Adele battles with this decision, those Chrissie loved and lost in her life before dig into Adele Vernian as they struggle to find the woman they knew.

But Adele isn't sure if she should release the woman within. Isn't sure if she wants to loose the rage and the beast that comes with it back into the world.

One last tether, one last block - is Adele keeping the world safe from herself, or letting her enemies finish destroying everything the woman named Chrissie Gossier lived for?

Cassie Smythe