Life has taught Tessa James two things: no one can be trusted and monsters are real. As a child, Tessa played the role of watchdog for her paranoid mother, who taught her that monsters lurked around every corner. When she witnesses a brutal crime she realizes that monsters do, in fact, exist. Certain the killer saw her, Tessa knows she's in danger. Soon, though, Tessa fears that the only monster she needs to be afraid of lives in her own head. Willing to risk her own life to find justice for the murdered woman - and to prove she isn't like her mother - Tessa digs until she finds the answers she's looking for, and finds herself completely at the killer's mercy with no way to escape. Coupling the story of a woman's quest for truth and stability with a call for increased social awareness about the prevalence of mental illness, The Dark Hour combines storytelling with passion for increasing awareness about psychiatric disorders.