Reflections in Crystal (The Crystal Therapy Chronicles Book 1)

Magic fixes people the world cannot touch.Alex Sullivan isn't crazy -- just angry. Angry enough to get arrested. Angry enough to be given a strange choice: prison, or an experimental magical program at a private facility in rural Missouri.They claim to fix broken people not with medicine or therapy, but with silence, service, and a skintight suit of latex.Inside the suit, Alex is cut off from the world -- unable to speak, eat, or even cry in the ordinary way. Inside the crystal, time flows differently. There, guided by someone who seems to know him better than he knows himself, Alex must face his deepest wounds... and either heal, or shatter.But this is no simple treatment. Alex finds himself on a journey into a hidden world where redemption is earned, the broken are made whole, and some choose never to leave the suit again.Previously published as Foundational Laminate."One of the rare novels I hope becomes reality—a hard look at how to turn the antisocial into good neighbors."— Karl K. Gallagher, author of The Fall of the Censor and Torchship Read more