ISBN: 979-8-9999273-6-1

Grief makes people accept stories that are easier than the truth.

Tragedy hits Monica like a freight train of emotion. She isn’t like everyone else accepting a truth that isn’t hers. She vows to settle the score.

As Monica begins to untangle the lies surrounding the woman everyone else pities, she is drawn into a psychological chess game with two women who understand control better than anyone: Emily Black—a widow with a perfect smile, a spotless home, and far too many poisonous plants growing in plain sight who performs grief like a role. And Volkova, a mysterious neighbor who teaches Monica how to sharpen her instincts and starve her doubt

But the closer Monica gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes to want it.

Bound in Botany is a dark psychological thriller about obsession, performance, and the terrible hunger that grows when a need for control becomes its own kind of fire.