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Damaged Goods: A Dark Psychological Thriller with a Killer Twist
YOU CAN'T OUTRUN YOUR DEMONS WHEN THEY'RE LIVING INSIDE YOU.
Sage Wellington has built her life around control. As an elite trainer at Manhattan's exclusive Verve Health Club, her carefully structured routine keeps the trauma of her childhood locked safely away—until Vanessa Reid walks through the door.
Her new client is everything Sage disciplined, knowledgeable, and eerily similar to herself. When Vanessa shares her story of narrowly escaping a predator who "collected perfect bodies," it triggers something dark in Sage's suppressed past.
Then a fitness model is killed, and Sage makes a horrifying evidence placing her at locations she doesn't remember visiting, including her unexplained presence near the crime scene. The dissociative episodes she thought she'd conquered years ago have returned—and with them, the terrifying possibility that during her blackouts, she's become the very thing she once feared most.
As more evidence mounts, Sage must confront the has her fractured mind turned her into a killer, or is her enigmatic new client playing a more sinister role in her unraveling?
Sage Wellington has built her life around control. As an elite trainer at Manhattan's exclusive Verve Health Club, her carefully structured routine keeps the trauma of her childhood locked safely away—until Vanessa Reid walks through the door.
Her new client is everything Sage disciplined, knowledgeable, and eerily similar to herself. When Vanessa shares her story of narrowly escaping a predator who "collected perfect bodies," it triggers something dark in Sage's suppressed past.
Then a fitness model is killed, and Sage makes a horrifying evidence placing her at locations she doesn't remember visiting, including her unexplained presence near the crime scene. The dissociative episodes she thought she'd conquered years ago have returned—and with them, the terrifying possibility that during her blackouts, she's become the very thing she once feared most.
As more evidence mounts, Sage must confront the has her fractured mind turned her into a killer, or is her enigmatic new client playing a more sinister role in her unraveling?
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 29, 2025
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Julia Derek
104 books116 followersJulia Derek is originally from Sweden and is a trainer by day and writer by night. She's the author of several mystery and thriller books.
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April 13, 2025
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October 15, 2025WOW WOW WOW what a book!!! So many twists and turns right up until the end and then there's a bite in the tail. This book got me in from page one and didn't let go. I highly recommend books by Julia Derek and am eagerly looking forward to my next one. Excellent AAAA++++
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