Don't Get Blood on the Daisies - Paperback
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After enduring childhood abuse and later betrayal, Stephanie searches for safety in distance, hoping she can reclaim a sense of self beyond what has been done to her. An online connection introduces her to Michael-quiet, controlled, and shaped by unresolved grief. The loss of his father alters the course of his inner world, distorting his perception of women and fueling a growing hostility toward his mother that evolves into verbal and psychological abuse. What begins as private resentment hardens into a belief system rooted in control.
Told through a dual psychological lens, the story traces Stephanie's fragile pursuit of autonomy alongside Michael's deepening fixation on power, blurring the line between attention and domination. As trust erodes and motives sharpen, silence becomes its own form of danger, and the truth arrives with irreversible consequences.
A tense, literary exploration of vulnerability, manipulation, and the unsettling ways trauma can shape - and distort - the human mind.
Jennifer Nelson is a New Mexico-based trauma therapist and private practice owner with a degree in social work, specializing in PTSD, dissociative identity disorder (DID), and abuse recovery. A mother of two sons, she has long been drawn to the emotional terrain of survival, identity, and the ways trauma shapes the inner lives of individuals. Her clinical work informs her fiction, offering a nuanced understanding of fear, resilience, and the fragile architecture of trust.
Jennifer has been writing since middle school, when storytelling first became a way to explore the unspoken tensions beneath everyday life. She began developing the foundation of her debut novel as a freshman in high school, returning to the manuscript years later after raising her children and establishing her career as a therapist. With the perspective gained through both professional practice and lived experience, she crafts literary psychological narratives that examine the intersections of vulnerability, control, and the search for meaning after harm.
Her work is characterized by an unflinching yet compassionate lens on the complexities of the human mind, illuminating the quiet battles fought beneath the surface of ordinary lives.
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