Reborn: Exposing My Toxic Mother's Deadly Lies

Chloe has lived her whole life as her mother's scapegoat. As a child she was slapped and locked out in the cold, blamed for a dinner her mother never cooked. At school she was isolated after her mother lied about an exam. Grown up, she listened to her mother sob that her father was a monster and that she stayed in the marriage only for her daughter. When Chloe urged her to divorce him, her mother twisted the words and told her father, whose rage sent Chloe down the stairs to her death.

She wakes on the very day her mother first wept about her father, and the same words fall from her lips. This time Chloe stays calm, refusing to take the bait, and her mother's tears stop cold. But the act only changes shape: a midnight phone call, a sudden trip to the bank for Chloe's ID and Social Security card, an unregistered SIM card slipped into her pocket, a glass of milk she is urged to drink.

Behind every kindness hides a plan, and Chloe must decide how much she truly knows about the death she already died once.