Frayed

For twelve years, Sloane Price has been bleeding where no one can see.

At twenty, she lost her son, Samuel, and with him any hope of another child. Keys turned up in the freezer. Pills went missing from her nightstand.

Now Sloane is thirty-two. She is medicated into a fog, has been dismissed from her nursing career, and has been quietly removed from every corner of her small South Carolina church, until even the church nursery, the last place she is allowed to hold a baby, is taken from her. To the town of Haven Mill, she is the woman who lost her mind. To her ex-husband, Cole, she is a burden he is patiently, lovingly preparing to put under guardianship.

But Sloane has started to remember. And what she remembers doesn't match the story everyone believes.

As the evidence surfaces piece by piece, every step toward the truth looks like one more proof that she is unstable. With no one left to believe her, Sloane's only hope is an ordinary stranger in a frayed flannel shirt whom no one else seems to notice.

Frayed is a Christian psychological thriller and a modern retelling of the woman who bled for twelve years in Mark 5. It is a story about gaslighting, grief, and faith, about what happens when life pulls at the threads of who we are, and what it takes to become whole again.