Anyone may have a “Trollop,” a “Sick and Tired,” a “Chatterbox” and even a “Perfectionist” in themselves. The question is, “who’s in charge.”  What if they were alive?

In the novel, The Gatekeeper, some of the main character's best friends live inside her head. “So it appears that I am fragmented, though not completely split.” This is what our main character and Narrator believes. In reality, she is a human jigsaw puzzle not yet assembled, cracked mirror pieces in a worn, weather beaten frame, ready to fall apart.

Something inside this troubled woman believes that her desire to find a therapist is actually for her eighteen year old son, to manage his anger issues. A close friend recommends one, and after a few visits with her son, the psychotherapist becomes much more interested in her. And so begins an unintended journey through her fractured, but not broken, dissociated mind, to places she did not know existed, chose to forget, and was not prepared to revisit.

This odyssey takes the reader and our main character through an obstacle course of events, a journey of self-actualization and recollection, trauma and confusion as she learns the extent to which she has been guided by, interacting with and struggling to find a precarious peace amid these fractured pieces of herself, all living inside her head, and all of whom were created for their own specific purpose.

The story of dissociation and multiple personalities is not unique. The story still works tremendously well, because each character has substance, personality and dimension, thus enabling readers to identify with one or all its characters. Readers will find that the story of The Gatekeeper is dark and foreboding, yet amusing and playful, providing a proverbial rollercoaster ride of emotions that will touch the reader’s soul, as these multifarious personalities emerge alive, completely different, yet being, loving, living and arguing with each other, much like the best friends that our Narrator believes they are.