Susan B. Haynes

The Terror Zone: the Shadowy Cavernous Pockets of the Mind Harbor an Excruciating Journey Through the Terror Zone Susan B. Haynes

Susan, a beautiful girl, was brought up in a wealthy neighborhood. She went to all the finest schools, sported only brand-name clothes, and hung with the elite in college. After graduation, she opens a great psychiatric office and continues her storybook life. Time passes, and she doesn't quite feel satisfied with the prince of her dreams. Feeling bored, lonely, and used to getting what she desires, she decides to look into child rearing. Adoption isn't enough for Susan as she is concerned that the child might not have her similar traits, so she chooses to be artificially inseminated. She paints a beautiful picture for her and her little girl, Lindsey, until one day, she wakes up and her daughter, now her only reason for living, has been snatched away by a merciless, foreboding stranger. Susan pleads for help from the Feds, the cops, even her boyfriend and her neighbors. But with absolutely no leads and only dead ends at every turn, her aid dwindles. Susan finds herself alone, losing faith in the system, and thoroughly disheartened. Weeks pass and insomnia hovers. Susan's beautiful fairy-tale life spins out of control and desperation sets in. Just when she thinks she can't take any more, she gets a phone call from an anonymous stranger claiming to know where Lindsey is. Feeling unloved and ignored, she takes matters into her own hands, but being wound up and suppressed for so long turns Susan into a whirling dervish. Blustering through her small town and discovering several lost children, none of whom are Lindsey, supplies Susan with new enthusiasm and a rekindled spirit. Headstrong and on a mission, Susan uses her profession as a tool, selfishly putting her needs before those of her patients and using them as guinea pigs. Susan hires a private investigator who disappears, only to be found attached to a bridge, sporting a bomb. The detective's brother, who happens to be a cop, declares he'll help Susan when he realizes her stories of mind-reading, telekinesis, psych