What happens when the person who claims to care for you is the one doing the harm? Elaine Mitchell is a chronically ill woman living in the quiet isolation of the desert - and in the shadow of a man who calls himself her caregiver. To the outside world, Marcus is a devoted ex-husband, a compassionate helper. But behind closed doors, his "help" comes with manipulation, erasure, and control. Told through the lens of autofiction and grounded in lived experience, When Caregivers Are Dangerous is a gripping, quietly devastating portrait of one woman's entrapment in a system - and a relationship - designed to dismiss her. As Elaine begins to piece together the truth behind her dependence, she wages a slow, strategic rebellion: small rebellions, secret documents, and the reclamation of her voice through writing. This is not a story of easy rescue. It's a story of survival by inches - of clarity hard-won, and freedom redefined. For readers of memoir, trauma-informed fiction, and survivor testimony, this book will feel like both a warning and a balm. You are not imagining it. You are not alone. And you are not wrong.