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Nomination of the Week 2: Diary of a Damsel Dame by Lee Stackhouse


Diary of a Damsel Dame

Lilah sees herself as attentive. Thoughtful and justified. Through their voice, the book explores how violence can feel reasonable when filtered through self-authored logic.

Diary of a Damsel Dame pulls the reader into a private narrative never meant for outside eyes, unfolding through diary entries that charts a slow and unsettling descent into obsession.

What Readers Are Saying

“A beautifully written nightmare… a love letter to the dangerously delusional that will leave you questioning your own morality long after you close the cover.”

“Violent, obsessive insanity… a true portrait of a love-struck psychopath.”

“Disturbing, darkly funny, and weirdly beautiful.”

“Darkly funny, genuinely disturbing, and impossible to put down.”

Trigger Warnings

Child abuse, substance abuse, suicide, violence, murder, stalking, narcissistic abuse, psychosis, intrusive thoughts, emotional manipulation, teenage sexual abuse and death of a parent.

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