{"product_id":"the-fourth-floor-r-a-tutson-9798257108570","title":"The Fourth Floor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fourth Floor\u003c\/b\u003e is a searing, intimate novel about survival inside systems that consume women-marriage, medicine, motherhood, and the state-and what it costs to finally walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeighAnne Rhodes is a veteran Florida Special Agent, a mother of four, and a woman who has learned to endure. After a catastrophic childbirth ends in an emergency hysterectomy, LeighAnne is forced back to work before her body or mind has healed. Her short-term disability claim is denied, her pain minimized, and her identity fractured between who she was and who the world still demands she be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt home, her marriage is quietly unraveling. Her husband's emotional withdrawal, secrecy, and repeated betrayals collide with LeighAnne's unraveling mental health, triggering panic, memory loss, and a profound erosion of self-trust. As she investigates crimes rooted in deception and control, she begins to recognize the same patterns in her own life: information hoarding disguised as privacy, love weaponized as leverage, and silence used as punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen LeighAnne is paired with a new partner-brilliant, perceptive, and unsettlingly attentive-her professional competence resurges, exposing just how much of herself she has been suppressing to survive. But clarity comes at a cost. As her personal life reaches a breaking point, LeighAnne must make impossible decisions about marriage, custody, and identity-choosing between staying intact for others or dismantling her life to save herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel culminates in a quiet, devastating reckoning: LeighAnne files for divorce, relinquishes custody of her children to ensure their stability, and steps into a future defined not by sacrifice, but by agency. What remains is not triumph, but truth-a woman alive, finally choosing herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinching, emotionally precise, and politically charged, \u003cb\u003eThe Fourth Floor\u003c\/b\u003e explores maternal mortality, emotional abuse, institutional neglect, and the psychological cost of being \"strong\" for too long. It is a story about what happens when endurance stops being noble-and survival demands transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. A. Tutson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257108570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"R. A. Tutson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173182054655,"sku":"9798257108570","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fourth-floor-r-a-tutson-9798257108570","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}