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After waking with no memory in a bleak manor known as Beaumont—a place where the mentally ill were confined—Caroline must confront a harsh nurse, a detached physician, and the secrets that led her into this nightmare. The story follows her desperate attempt to escape, to recall why she was taken, and to find the man who claimed her body and destroyed her mind.
First publish date: 1967
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Joan Aiken
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