The Green Room

Some Prisons Have No Bars

Dona Pearson has spent a lifetime escaping one controlling man after another—first a jealous boyfriend, then an unfaithful husband, and finally a lover whose affection smothered her. At last, she believes she’s found peace in her quiet Florida apartment and the freedom to live on her own terms. But freedom lasts only until the morning she vanishes without a trace. Trapped in a windowless green room with no sense of time, Dona endures drugged meals, psychological manipulation, and the chilling voice of a captor she cannot see. With each question he forces her to answer, she is pushed deeper into the shadows of her past—her failed marriage, her dangerous love affair, her relentless fear of abandonment. In the darkness, old memories become weapons, and every mistake she’s ever made suddenly feels like a motive.