The Door at the Top of the Stairs
By Alison Naomi Holt
A truly beautiful exploration of the human spirit and its capacity to heal and thrive
Don’t worry. There’s darkness, but there’s also humor and love and friendship with people you’d want to call your friends.
The psychological thriller, The Door at the Top of the Stairs tells of the trauma suffered by police detective Jesse Shaunessy, a strong yet vulnerable woman who is kidnapped and tortured and then thrown away by her department as damaged goods. It’s a heart-rending story of two women struggling to bring a broken Jesse out of her lonely darkness and back into the light of love.
Genre:
Suspense
Themes:
Against All Odds
Found Family
Kidnapping / Disappearance
Nursed Back to Health
Heat Level:
None (no sex or physical intimacy at all)
Archetypes:
Psychologist / Therapist / Psychiatrist
Geographic Location:
United States: South
Setting:
Farm / Ranch
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Trigger/Content Warning:
flashback to torture, including rape
