The Daisy Chain Reaction (Paperback)

A.C. Nightingale

ISBN 10: 1968700854 / ISBN 13: 9781968700850

Published by Indie Author Revolution, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Sometimes, love doesn't follow you out of the dark-it teaches you how to walk through it.A heart-wrenching Orpheus and Eurydice retelling about love, loss, and the bonds that refuse to break even after death.Rose always thought she'd have more time. Time with her sisters, with the life she was building, with the world she loved. But time is the first thing to slip away.Now, she finds herself trapped in an unexplainable cycle of waking and dreaming. Each night, she opens her eyes in an unfamiliar medical space she calls The Room, where a man named Charlie subjects her to strange, silent treatments. Each morning, she wakes with less certainty of what's real.In her waking life, Rose is a journalist trying to keep her grip on reality as her mind fractures between worlds. Memories twist. Time folds in on itself. Her sisters' voices echo like ghosts she can't quite reach. Desperate to return to them-to the life she lost-Rose must confront the terrifying truth of where she is, and what she's become.The Daisy Chain Reaction reimagines the Orpheus and Eurydice myth through the lens of sisterhood, disability, and resilience. Blending emotional realism with surreal suspense, it explores what it means to love beyond loss and to find hope in the aftermath of heartbreak.Perfect for fans of "If I Stay" and "Before I Fall"You'll love The Daisy Chain Reaction if you're a fan of: Heartfelt Greek Mythology RetellingsFound Family & Sister BondsDeaf Culture & Disability RepresentationEmotional & Realistic Mental Health DepictionsGrief & Healing ArcsHopeful EndingsClosed Door RomanceEmotionally Charged Fiction This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Daisy Chain Reaction (Paperback)
• Publisher: Indie Author Revolution
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1968700854
• ISBN 13: 9781968700850
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Wegert, Nina
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

As Rose loses her mind, so do you.

Three best friends.
Two sisters.
One childhood bestie.
The unbreakable chains of friendship.

Rose has always been there for her best friends. Her sisters who have shared nearly every chapter of their lives with her. But now, Rose is in the middle of a mental health crisis, and the world around her is beginning to unravel.

She can't tell what's real and what's not.

Recurring nightmares bleed into her waking life. Time slips through her fingers. Memories become unreliable, and the people she loves most begin to feel like strangers.

As Rose struggles to hold on to reality, one question becomes impossible to answer:

What if the story she's telling isn't the story that's happening?

Told entirely through Rose's perspective, The Daisy Chain Reaction pulls you inside the mind of an unreliable narrator and asks you to question every memory, every relationship, and every moment alongside her.

Because when Rose loses her grip on reality, you lose yours too.

And when you think you know the truth...

The story continues in The Daisy Chain Collapse.

What Rose couldn't see, everyone else witnessed.

Told from the perspectives of those closest to her, The Daisy Chain Collapse reveals the other side of the story and answers the questions The Daisy Chain Reaction leaves behind.

And sometimes, loving someone through their darkest moments means learning how to survive the darkness with them.

Perfect for fans of "If I Stay" and "Before I Fall"

You'll love The Daisy Chain Reaction if you're a fan of:

• Heartfelt Greek Mythology Retellings
• Found Family & Sister Bonds
• Deaf Culture & Disability Representation
• Emotional & Realistic Mental Health Depictions
• Grief & Healing Arcs
• Hopeful Endings
• Closed Door Romance
• Emotionally Charged Fiction

The Daisy Chain Reaction is PG-13 and non-explicit. It delicately explores themes of grief, loss, trauma, and recovery with compassion and honesty.

The Daisy Chain Reaction is an emotional contemporary fiction with romantic elements.

Major Tropes:

• Found family

• Love after loss

• Soulmate connection

• Healing from trauma

• Dual reality / blurred perception

• Disability representation

• “Save yourself” arc

• Emotional suspense (not crime-related)

Emotional Themes:

• Grief and resilience

• The power of love to anchor identity

• Hope after tragedy

• Living between worlds (mind/body, past/present, life/death)