The prologue for this book is valid as it's headed "Three Portraits of Lily"
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"Are you sure you're going to be all right now?"
"I'll be fine, Grandma."
"I hate to go off and leave you."
Lily rolls her eyes. "Grandma, I'm seventeen years old, I can take care of myself for two days."
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Lily deVries suffers from DID, a psychiatric condition known as dissociative identify disorder. Triggered by a devastating childhood trauma, her mind has fragmented into different personalities known as 'alters'. There's the gentle, child-like Lily, the sexually aggressive Lilah and Lilith - the violent psychopath. Now she's found herself in the Reed-Chase mental institution where they're hoping to find a cure.
But there's another patient undergoing treatment at the Institute. Fellow DID sufferer Ulysses Maxwell faces life imprisonment for the rape and murder of more than a dozen women. When Lilith and Max (Maxwell's psychopathic alter) meet, the reaction is dynamite.