Punishment Room

The Making of a Stalker

By: P. R. Lynn

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What creates a monster? Sometimes it's love.

Tommy Morrison is eight years old when his mother, Margaret, tears up his family drawing and sends him to the "correction room" for the first time. In the soundproofed space she's designed for his education, Tommy learns that his mother's love is the only love he can trust—and that the outside world is full of people who will manipulate and betray him.
Especially women.

Over the next three decades, Margaret systematically shapes Tommy's understanding of relationships, love, and the "true nature" of women through isolation, psychological conditioning, and twisted maternal devotion. When Tommy ventures into the workplace, his surveillance skills from an IT background and his mother's teachings create a dangerous combination that destroys careers, lives, and ultimately drives a young woman to her death.

But for Margaret, this isn't tragedy—it's validation. Her son's "research methods" prove everything she's taught him about feminine manipulation. Now, working as a successful psychological thriller author, Tommy has found the perfect cover for his obsessions. His published novels validate his surveillance techniques as "authentic psychological insight," while his position on the residents' council of his apartment building provides legitimate access to study potential subjects.
As Margaret's health declines, she prepares Tommy for his ultimate goal: finding the one woman pure enough to join their perfect family system. Someone vulnerable enough to need his protection, intelligent enough to appreciate his methods, isolated enough to depend on his devotion.

Someone exactly like Sarah, who will soon move into apartment 4B.

The Punishment Room is a chilling psychological origin story that explores how childhood trauma, maternal manipulation, and systematic isolation can create a predator who believes himself to be a protector. This haunting prequel to Proper Integration reveals the making of a stalker who sees his obsession as love and his surveillance as devotion—a man whose greatest victim was the eight-year-old boy who once drew pictures of the family he wished he could have.

Perfect for readers who enjoyed Sharp Objects, The Silent Patient, and Gone Girl—a disturbing exploration of how monsters are made, not born.