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1989.
 Beneath the towering mahoganies of an isolated home, sixteen-year-old Thuli writes a final letter to her father, who will never read it.

After being cajoled into a so-called gifted institution for disturbed youths, she is recruited into the Obedient Program, an underground experiment that trains carefully selected patients to infiltrate lives beyond the institution's walls. Their purpose is chillingly simple: manipulate ordinary people until they begin to question their own sanity... and willingly surrender themselves.

But while Thuli learns how to dismantle other minds, someone is quietly dismantling hers.

As fragmented memories resurface, a supposedly dead mother reappears under different names, psychiatrists become patients, patients become predators, and every truth begins collapsing into another lie. The deeper Thuli searches for her past, the more she realizes that she may not be hunting a monster.

She may have been raised by one.

A haunting literary psychological thriller about memory, manipulation, inherited violence, and the devastating cost of believing the wrong story, Fade in the View asks one terrifying question:

What happens when the person teaching you how to recognize madness is the one who created it?

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