She'll tell you she loves you.

She'll tell you you're different. That you're the one she's been waiting for. She'll build a future with you before you've had time to question the present.

Then she'll slowly take it all away.

Told from the chilling perspective of a self-confessed female narcissist, this psychological novel exposes the hidden cycle of love bombing, manipulation, emotional control, devaluation and discard from the inside.

Vicky knows exactly how to make someone fall in love. She knows how to become everything they have ever wanted, how to make them believe they have found their soulmate, and how to keep them chasing a future that never truly existed.

As she recounts her relationship with Dean, she reveals every calculated decision, every contradiction and every emotional game that slowly destroys the man who only wanted to love her.

Raw, unsettling and deeply thought-provoking, this is not a story about a victim searching for answers. It is a confession from the person who caused the damage.

If you enjoy emotionally complex psychological fiction, unreliable narrators and dark relationship dramas that explore narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, trauma bonds and toxic relationships, this powerful novel offers a disturbing look inside the mind of someone who always needed control more than love.