Therapissed
Dasher Canon
Type: ARC
Genre: Thriller, literary, contemporary
Word count: 82,000
Warnings: Graphic violence, swearing
Do you enjoy working from home? Imagine that freedom being snatched away overnight by a new boss. That’s what happens to Andreas—until a mandatory hike ends with the boss missing. Andreas quickly realizes he never needed therapy. He’s already figured out how to make problems disappear. Problems. And people.
What’s this?
Based in the shadow of Niagara Falls, Andreas Torrey thrives on staying invisible. He works from home. He avoids eye contact. He silently helps people from a distance, where rules feel like safety. For Andreas, routine isn’t comfort—it’s survival.
Then COVID takes his boss.
Enter: the new boss. Loud. Grinning. Hungry for control. First item on his agenda: No more of this “work from home nonsense.” No exceptions. The home setup Andreas depended on collapses in the blink of an eye—replaced by corporate meetings, chafing button-ups, and ever-judging coworkers. Worse, his late kid brother keeps taunting him, tormenting him, and refusing to stay dead.
As pressure mounts inside a pharmaceutical empire built on dependency and denial, Andreas is driven toward spaces he can’t navigate and choices he never wanted to make. The line between helping and harming blurs as therapy pushes him past the point of no return.
Darkly funny, unsettling, and razor-sharp, Therapissed is a psychological thriller about control, compliance, and what happens when a mind designed to fix systems realizes it might be the most dangerous system of all.
I’m a father of three boys and a traveling engineer who works on machines that perform laser eye surgery (LASIK, Cataract, SMILE). I’ve visited over 40 countries, and (weakly) speak 5 languages. I write high-concept psychological thrillers that explore power, identity, and the fragile line between control and chaos. My debut novel, Slowly Sinking, reached #24 on IngramSpark’s global thriller list, and I’m continuing to build an interconnected collection of standalone thrillers known as my Canon Series. It consists of stories that aren’t sequels, but are tied together through recurring characters across titles.
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