Layla's Shadow

About this book

Psychiatrist Mohamed holds his world together through rigid rituals: two cups of coffee, carefully counted stairs, and spectacles polished three times. Then Layla enters his clinic carrying an unresolved disappearance, three years of suspended grief, and a story that touches something disturbingly familiar within him. As the boundaries between doctor and patient, truth and denial, begin to dissolve, both must confront the refuge memory creates after trauma. Layla's Shadow is a tense psychological novel about grief, the fragility of memory, and the possibility that healing can begin only when the fortress built to contain pain is finally dismantled.