
Misery's Pawn
by David Merritt & Bruce Garrison
Fiction, PsychologicalPublished: 18 April 2026
A psychological drama in which one deeply troubled man, Darryl, seeds destructive ripple effects across the lives around him. His daughter Kim leaves the man who loved her. That man's emotional collapse runs deep. Renee, drawn into Darryl's orbit, begins to recognise what she accepted and what she now has to undo. Misery's Pawn follows four interconnected lives shaped by one manipulator, and the accountability each of them is asked to do to get back to themselves.