Sep 15, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min · 12 segments
BookTok made her book go viral… and then traditional publishing came knocking. This week, we’re joined by Sheila Masterson, bestselling author of the dark romance sensation *The Poison Daughter*, to…
Sheila MastersonGuestNicoleHostMeghanHostabsolutely absolutely all right let's talk about the ending
was a standalone it was refreshing we just got the whole thing done and dusted I was like wait it's done there's not like three more books I've got to wait for like amazing but this obviously it was romantic it was heart-wrenching so I mean I'll like this if you are still here you are well and deep in spoiler land now so what the biggest one
Adia is not alive she died and has all been part of Harlow's imagination like I think a hallucination um that was my
question is hallucination or ghost because she says a couple things that I'm like how does she know that so
yeah I think it's she is really like a projection of Harlow's grief but also like there are moments where Harlow is aware.
So when they first start, like the first time they go into the garden right after they meet and she says, I don't go down that path, but she doesn't say why.
But she knows not to go down that path and she doesn't want to go over there and she doesn't really know why.
And There are certain moments and for people who have complex PTSD like Harlow does, you will sometimes both know something and not know it at the same time.
Like you subconsciously know that something is wrong, but you don't know what it is.
And so you will say something that is like from the part of your brain that knows that something happened.
But you will not really be aware of that blip because you have like so much cognitive dissonance, like you're just ignoring to be where you are.
And so her brain has sort of done this thing to protect her from this very intense grief.
And we see some other things too, where I'm trying to think of some of them off the top of my head, but there are certain things where like, you almost get the impression that she does know.
And then even at the end, when he's taking her into the garden, she's sort of like panicking and she doesn't know why.
And she has a sense that something is off and it's not until they like step right there.
So, so yeah, it's sort of like her, her picking up on things kind of subconsciously or knowing things and then like kind of they feed in at different points and So there's a point where she says, what do you, Adia says to her, what are you going to do when your necklace like runs out of magic? And she says, I'll worry about that later.
And like, she's sort of like having this conversation with her own grief the entire time.
And, and even at the end, like it's sort of a manifestation of, of her grief.
absolutely absolutely all right let's talk about the ending
was a standalone it was refreshing we just got the whole thing done and dusted I was like wait it's done there's not like three more books I've got to wait for like amazing but this obviously it was romantic it was heart-wrenching so I mean I'll like this if you are still here you are well and deep in spoiler land now so what the biggest one
Adia is not alive she died and has all been part of Harlow's imagination like I think a hallucination um that was my
question is hallucination or ghost because she says a couple things that I'm like how does she know that so
yeah I think it's she is really like a projection of Harlow's grief but also like there are moments where Harlow is aware.
So when they first start, like the first time they go into the garden right after they meet and she says, I don't go down that path, but she doesn't say why.
But she knows not to go down that path and she doesn't want to go over there and she doesn't really know why.
And There are certain moments and for people who have complex PTSD like Harlow does, you will sometimes both know something and not know it at the same time.
Like you subconsciously know that something is wrong, but you don't know what it is.
And so you will say something that is like from the part of your brain that knows that something happened.
But you will not really be aware of that blip because you have like so much cognitive dissonance, like you're just ignoring to be where you are.
And so her brain has sort of done this thing to protect her from this very intense grief.
And we see some other things too, where I'm trying to think of some of them off the top of my head, but there are certain things where like, you almost get the impression that she does know.
And then even at the end, when he's taking her into the garden, she's sort of like panicking and she doesn't know why.
And she has a sense that something is off and it's not until they like step right there.
So, so yeah, it's sort of like her, her picking up on things kind of subconsciously or knowing things and then like kind of they feed in at different points and So there's a point where she says, what do you, Adia says to her, what are you going to do when your necklace like runs out of magic? And she says, I'll worry about that later.
And like, she's sort of like having this conversation with her own grief the entire time.
And, and even at the end, like it's sort of a manifestation of, of her grief.
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