What happens when your soul leaves your body—and someone else tries to take over?

Deborah's life has unravelled. Her child is dead, her marriage broken, and now her mind is fraying at the seams. She walks through life in a fog of grief, violence, and self-destruction, until a failed suicide attempt sends her spiralling into the care of the enigmatic Doctor Vanilla.

But Doctor Vanilla is no ordinary therapist. Behind his cold, clinical manner lies a disturbing fascination with dreams, control, and the mysterious divide between consciousness and the soul.

Meanwhile, something—someone—has slipped from Deborah's body. Her soul. Cast adrift in a surreal mirror-world, it must race against time to find a way back. But it's not the only one searching.

A novel of psychological depth, unsettling suspense, and emotional reckoning, Doctor Vanilla's Sunflowers will grip fans of Freida McFadden, Elizabeth Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, and Dennis Lehane. It's a haunting, genre-bending story of what happens when the very essence of who you are begins to slip away—and someone else wants in.