[Those Strange Women 01] • The Woman Who Made Me Feel Strange

A psychological mystery full of clues hidden in plain sight. Can you figure out what’s really happening to the lesbian protagonist, Lane, before the novel ends?

In 2030, Lane Thompson, a ‘nobody’, sat on the edge of a rooftop in New York and smoked a cigarette. Moments after, her body was found on the concrete fifty floors below, broken and soaking in blood.

Three years later, Lane wakes up at the Wonderdrug Psychiatric Centre, fully recovered. Her doctor doesn’t allow her to leave because she doesn’t remember wanting to kill herself and she doesn’t even mind because she thinks living at the Centre for free is way better than struggling financially on the outside.

Her plan to stay there forever is thwarted when Paul, a woman and fellow patient, manipulates her into leaving. Paul insists the Centre is not what it pretends to be and drags Lane through the underbelly of New York as she tries to prove that they are so much more than just mere ‘nobodies’.

Paul’s unique method of acquiring money allows Lane the luxury of not having to work for a living so Lane spends her time trying to reconnect with her former lover—actress Arden Villeneuve—instead.

What she soon discovers makes her question everything she thought was true. Problem is, how do you find out what’s really going on when you can’t trust anything anybody says?