Shadow Selves (Double Happiness)

How far would you go and what would you do to find your creativity? How long would you plot and plan for revenge against your identical twin sister? What would you do and who would you do it to to get everything that you wanted?

When Lily Rose, a blocked writer, visits her mentally ill identical twin sister Lily Beth, hoping to break through her writers block, she has no idea what she’s in for… and what unblocking her creativity will cost her.

Her twin sister Lily Beth has been planning a recap of a childhood trick, switching places, for a very long time. Lily Rose can finally write… after she’s drugged and left on a locked ward in a mental institution, and Lily Beth impersonates her, escapes, and resumes Lily Rose’s life. But when her sister has a psychotic break, Lily Rose must escape the institution and reconnect to her twin psychically in order to save her sister from a sexual deviant stalking Lily Beth in the present.

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Complex, emotional, gripping… ‘Shadow Selves (Double Happiness V. 1)’ by eXu author H. Raven Rose has been called all of that.

“Brilliant!” ~C. Hoskins, on the chapter 1 quote below:

“Humans really are almost intolerable, she thought to herself, myself included. It’s not that I meant to be rude. It’s that I’m at the end of it. Hence this trip, into the unknown, to try and find the known.” ~Lily Rose, Shadow Selves (Double Happiness V. 1) [Kindle Edition]

Author Interview:

Q: What made you write this book?

A: It’s an adaptation of a feature film script which I wrote some years ago. I love the characters and it was a tremendous joy to delve more deeply into their psyches while doing the adaption from screenplay to novel.

Q: Your books explore dark themes: incest, attempted rape, murder, sociopaths/psychopaths, and so on. Why?

A: Life is made up of all kinds of experiences, light and dark, and many people will face evil, to some degree in their life. We are each the main character in our own life fairy/horror tale. I also explore these themes because of a personal interest in women who transcend the horrific which is part of reality.

Q: Is your work meant to inspire?

A: My stories are meant to be entertaining thought-provoking and it’s wonderful if readers find them uplifting or inspiring. Humans undergo painful and terrible things. What does not kill us, has the potential to make us stronger.