The victim's identity and her secret relationship to Penny give Penny the perfect motive, sealing the deal. Her guilt is beyond doubt: she was found alone in the victim's apartment, covered in blood, holding the murder weapon. Penny Francone, age sixteen, is a murderer. Then there's Chloe, a perfectionist who strives for straight A's in school.Īnd along comes Eve, who is spiteful and vicious.

Meet Ruby, who speaks with a British accent. Together, they set out in search of the truth about Penny, but discover instead a shocking hidden history of secrets, lies, and betrayals that put all their lives in grave danger.Ī thriller that explores the truth or lies behind a teenage girl's multiple personality disorder, from D.J. Grace's determination to understand the why behind her daughter's terrible crime fuels Mitch's resolve to help the Francone family. Mitchell McHugh, a psychiatrist battling demons of his own. As Penny awaits trial in a state mental hospital, she is treated by Dr. Arthur and Grace took Penny to different psychiatrists, until one diagnosed a severe multiple personality disorder. But as she grew, Penny's actions grew more disturbing, and different 'personalities' emerged. Penny was found abandoned, with a mysterious past, and it felt like fate brought Penny to her, and her husband Arthur. None of this was conceivable the day Penny came into her life. Grace blames herself, because that's what mothers do, they look at their choices and wonder, what if? But hindsight offers little more than the chance for regret. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim's blood on her body and clothes. There was not much question of her daughter's guilt. Grace never dreamt she'd visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with a shocking and brutal murder.

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