Performer. Prisoner. Predator. Survivor.
Rebecca is a burlesque performer living on Florida's Gulf Coast when she's pulled into a trafficking ring—not by force, but by manipulation. What follows is a harrowing psychological descent as she's gaslit, isolated, and slowly reshaped from performer to prisoner to something far more dangerous.
Praise God for Pasties is a dark debut novel that exposes how trafficking actually works—not through the Hollywood myths of strangers and windowless vans, but through coercive control, erosion of identity, and the terrifying logic of survival. How far would you go to stay alive? And what would be left of you when it was over?
For readers of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient who want a thriller with literary depth and something urgent to say.
