Detained ✓

Diagnosed with social anxiety, depression, and severe isolation at just eighteen years old, Moira Neverson's future changes overnight. Hoping treatment will give their daughter a chance at a normal life, her desperate parents admit her into a prestigious psychiatric hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Six years later, progress has been slow, but her psychiatrist finally decides Moira is stable enough to return to society. Now twenty-four, she has grown accustomed to her quiet, solitary existence and finds comfort in the safety of isolation. The outside world still feels unfamiliar and unpredictable, and keeping to herself has become the only way she knows how to protect her peace.

But that fragile sense of control is disrupted when a distressed teenage runaway and an injured ex-convict appear on her doorstep one night, forcing Moira into a situation she never imagined herself facing.

As tensions rise and circumstances grow increasingly dangerous, Moira finds herself pulled into a world far more complicated than the one she spent years trying to escape.

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