K.R. ELLIOTT
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Five novels · workplace dark comedy

Mad Hatters at the Helm

A five-book dark comedy about workplace psychological abuse — an ED nurse's descent through a 'high-performing' hospital unit, told as an Oz allegory in reverse.

Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance is the point.

  1. I

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    Onboarding

    A new ER nurse falls down the rabbit hole of a 'high-performing' unit, where the orientation packet is the first lie.

  2. II

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    Isolation

    The first move of institutional abuse — cut the target off, one reassignment and rescinded invitation at a time.

  3. III

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    Gaslighting

    Manufactured chaos as management: when the schedule, the story, and the rules change daily so nothing can be proven.

  4. IV

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    Fear

    A unit governed by fear, where 'caution' is the cover for control and everyone learns to police themselves.

  5. V

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    Reckoning

    The way out, and its cost — when the institution protects itself and the person who caused the harm keeps her chair.

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