And sometimes the people who seem the most accomplished and together are the ones who can hurt you the deepest.
The origin story behind this line began many months before we actually started to write, when we were still in the research and plotting phase of the book. We are constantly texting and emailing ideas to each other - links to articles, for example, or photographs to inspire our characters’ appearances. In this particular instance, we both read a small, but chilling, article inThe New York Times. It involved a young female employee who was called into her male boss’s office. Her boss accused her of theft, and said she would have to remove her top to prove she wasn’t hiding the missing item…the events that followed grew even more disturbing and twisted. Although our book did not explore this topic in detail, it certainly informed the backstory of our character Jessica.
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