Filled With Misery (Misery Series #01)
Brittany Blaire Altamirano was thirteen when she realized the Doll House had successfully killed the child she used to be. Before the training, before the bloodshed, before the endless missions that forced weapons into her trembling hands, Brittany used to cry. Used to beg. Used to hope somebody would save her. But hope does not survive inside the Doll House. It rots. Slowly. Painfully. Until all that remains is obedience.
Known within the organization as one of their most efficient assassins, Brittany was shaped into perfection through cruelty. Every failure earned punishment. Every weakness was carved out of her with violence. She learned how to lie without blinking, kill without shaking, and survive without needing anyone. To the directors of the Doll House, Brittany was a masterpiece, a weapon sharpened by suffering itself.
But monsters are not born without consequence.
Years after escaping alongside the other survivors, Brittany now lives in a world she barely recognizes. Freedom feels foreign. Kindness feels dangerous. Sleep is impossible when ghosts follow her into every nightmare. The faces of children left behind inside the Doll House haunt her relentlessly, especially the ones she could not save. Worse, Brittany fears that the violence inside her never truly disappeared. She fears she was not merely trained to become a weapon, she became one willingly.
As the survivors begin building a network dedicated to destroying the Doll House and rescuing abducted children, Brittany is forced into a leadership role she never wanted. People look at her and see strength. Stability. A protector. But beneath her cold exterior is a woman completely consumed by grief, rage, and self-loathing.
For the first time, Brittany experiences something terrifyingly unfamiliar: tenderness. Love. The possibility of being understood. Yet every moment of happiness feels undeserved to someone whose hands are stained with blood.