When you’re your own worst enemy, survival is the hardest choice of all.

At 37, Dahlia thought she’d be stronger. But years of trauma, addiction, and self-doubt have left her broken. Every decision she makes could be her last—and you’re the one making them.

All profit donated to Maine’s Mobile Crisis Line run through The Opportunity Alliance in Portland Maine to support suicide prevention and mental health services

Someone is carving people open, chiseling their bones, and stitching them back up. Cemetery vandalism and grave robberies are happening in record numbers across the state. Reports of strange sightings in the night sky are rolling into Maine’s Fisheries and Wildlife hotline. Members of the Silver Springs Psychiatric Hospital’s NA group start unraveling one by one, while a mesmerizing new nurse demands everyone’s attention.

Can Dory, former psych hospital patient out on safety release, and her nuthouse friends help detectives get to the bottom of these uncanny occurrences, or will they end up bled-out for the next Bone Cutter’s high

They wear their scars with pride, while Dory tries desperately to hide her own. No matter what she does to cover her wounds, they can still smell her bleed, and they want in—down to the bones.

Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out she’s been Blue-Papered—involuntarily committed. She gets sent to the wrong counseling group and discovers a whole new world of psychiatric patients she’d never known existed. At first, she just thinks they’re cutters, all marked by similar scars, but then she finds out those scars are from carving into their own bodies to satisfy their bone-crazy addiction. When they find out Dory’s never tapped into her bones, she becomes their target.

Frightened for her life, she desperately tries to prove to the psych. hospital staff she’s not delusional about these patients wanting to cut her open and get to her bones. The staff doesn’t believe her. They all think she’s crazy. She ends up on the run and fighting for her life, trying to avoid getting “dusted” by The Bone Cutters.

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