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A NEST OF SNAKES is the debut novel by multi award-winning author Deborah Levison (WildBlue Press, 2022).

Part thriller, part courtroom drama, the story is based on real-life events in which adult men came forward to accuse private schools of abuse.

"Brendan Cortland is a broken man.

Middle-aged, pasty, pudgy, and fearful, he suffers from clear signs of post-traumatic stress. His contact with the outside world is limited to trolling clandestine chatrooms and a weekly session with his psychiatrist, who suspects catastrophic abuse—but in all his years of therapy, Brendan never divulged the deepest source of his trauma.

Pushed to his breaking point, Brendan finally embarks on a quest for justice: he files a lawsuit against the elite New England private school he attended as a boy. His attorney warns him that prepping for the case may mean dredging up the painful memories he’d rather keep buried.

Still, no one is prepared for the horrible secrets and shocking revelations that emerge during the trial… least of all Brendan himself."

Biography

Deborah Levison is an author and publicist. Her life has two parts: the first in Canada, where she attended University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the second in Connecticut, where she lives with three children, two doodles, and one husband. Her first book, a multi award-winning nonfiction called THE CRATE, is a true crime story that recounts the discovery of a grisly murder that involved Levison’s family. In the narrative, evil in the past meets evil in the present. Reviewers called it “gorgeous and poetic,” “heart-wrenching,” and “a brilliant story.”