Book #2 in the Love and Madness series. Yet also a stand-alone novel.A teenage girl jumps out of her psychoanalyst's window, crashes to the ground and dies. Was it suicide? Or did her analyst push the patient to her death?Duffino is now a beautiful, successful psychoanalyst in the upper east side of Manhattan, an expert in mother daughter relationships. Yet nothing prepared her for her latest patient: Andromeda, a schizophrenic teenage girl accused of murdering her mother.As Andromeda's mind games proceed, Duffino becomes lost deeper in a maze of lies, deception and confusion.A page-turning psychological thriller, this novel takes us deep into the world of madness, and shows us that all is not as well as it seems.Book #2 in the Love and Madness series, yet also stand-alone novel. Book #1 (CONFINEMENT) is also available

Set in an experimental hospital for the criminally insane in the 1950s, CONFINEMENT is loosely based on the author's one year residency in a psychiatric center, when lobotomies and other equally cruel treatments were rampant, and when the highly-experimental "Insulin Therapy" was in vogue.Duffino, an attractive girl in her early 20s, is sent to a mental hospital when she refuses to defend herself at trial for the highly publicized, gang-related murder of her boyfriend's rival. Refusing to speak, Duffino is ordered locked-up until she's willing to talk.The richness of the story unfolds with Duffino's relationship to the other inmates, all in for violent crimes, including her obese roommate, Charlotte, sentenced for murdering a nun. Charlotte becomes obsessed with Duffino, and will not let up until she speaks.The inmates slowly come to learn why they did the crimes they did, as they make us question the true nature of guilt.Between the horrifying treatments, the group...

When Melvin suddenly leaves Sara for a much younger woman after eighteen years of a bumpy marriage, Sara is left with three growing children and a heart full of dreams. Hurt, saddened, and not sure how to go on, she is not given much time to grieve. Her spunky children cheer her on, and the newly formed group of single women in the neighborhood decide it's time to help each other start searching for the One. Before she knows it, Sara has a single profile on the online dating sites, and the wild ride begins.Sara has to learn to go from being a somewhat old-fashioned mom to a modern woman, dating one strange guy after another, learning about herself, learning about men, and finally waking up to what love really means. Her mother tries to pull her backwards—to the old neighborhood, to marrying her friend's stable son—but Sara's destiny is moving in another direction. She consults her psychic regularly, who keeps encouraging her and letting her know that a...