A daring look at addiction and dependency in a dystopic near-future Los Angeles Sometimes, one thing leads to another. Other times, one thing leads to the same thing. Melanie Marsh knows all about this. In fact, she's done her time at The Colony, one of southern California's many detox facilities and amongst the first to institute the controversial new conditional release policy. On its face, it's really quite simple. The hospital will release you on one condition: you have to pay. The check clears, and off you go, back into the harsh light of day. And when the check bounces? Well, Melanie Marsh knows all about that, too. Enter: Make It Stop, a group of highly skilled former addicts bent on rescuing the medically imprisoned and involuntarily committed by any means necessary. But when Scary Gary, one of their top ops, gets killed on assignment, Melanie and crew set out to avenge his death, find the source of their leak, and unravel an unthinkable medical conspiracy even as they themselves become unraveled. Make It Stop takes readers up and down Southern California's coasts, from its sunny shores to its darkest, dingiest corners, exploring sobriety, sanity, and a society hell bent on profiting off of both those things.