The Smoke & Mirrors Series, Book One
Smoke, Mirrors, and Marble Floors
A Trauma-Informed Memoir of Coercive Control and the Long Road Out
Available now · by E. Renea Snyder · ISBN 9798258529534
From the outside it looked like everything a life should be: the house, the standing, the marble floors. Inside it was a slow erasure — the monitoring, the rewriting of reality, the quiet rules that were never written down but never stopped being enforced.
Smoke, Mirrors, and Marble Floors is the story of how a therapist missed it in her own home, how she finally saw it, and what it took to get out. It names coercive control by its real mechanics: isolation, financial control, image management, and the gaslighting that makes a person doubt her own memory.
This is a memoir, not a manual, but it was written by someone with clinical training and it never leaves you alone in the hard parts. If you have been told you are too sensitive, too much, or imagining things, this book was written for you.
Inside this book
- Understand the tactics of coercive control
- Find validation, compassion, and clarity
- Begin your journey of healing and freedom
Who it's for
- Survivors of domestic violence, coercive control, and emotional abuse
- Friends and family who want to understand why leaving is not simple
- Advocates, therapists, and clergy supporting people still inside it
