Her Deadly Game (Keera Duggan, #1)

by Robert Dugoni

but his self-confidence was narcissism,

When she tried to discreetly end their relationship, he became verbally abusive and confrontational.

“‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple.’”

It’s not unusual for a child subjected to early, repetitive trauma to fail to develop a core sense of identity, and to instead create an alternate identity, possibly more than one, that is radically different from his reality.”