Leticia Lilleström

THIS IS NOT ABUSE is a psychological fiction novel about power that never raises its voice. When a woman enters a voluntary support framework, nothing alarming happens. There is no violence. No threats. No visible harm. There are meetings. Forms. Clarifications. Consent confirmations. Witness statements. Summaries. Every step is documented. Every concern is reframed. Every objection becomes a data point.
As procedures quietly increase, language replaces experience. Meaning is filtered, corrected, and archived. Compliance is praised. Resistance is logged. Leaving is discussed academically. The system insists it is neutral. The file insists it is accurate. And the final determination is clear. This does not meet the criteria for abuse. Blending psychological suspense, literary fiction, and dystopian realism, THIS IS NOT ABUSE explores institutional control, administrative power, gaslighting through process, and the slow erasure of agency through "reasonable" systems.
This novel will resonate with readers who are drawn to cold psychological fiction, Kafka-like bureaucracy, and stories where nothing dramatic happens-yet everything changes. It is not a story about harm. It is a story about how harm is defined.