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Rick Desmond believes he is not crazy, but anger issues and a threatened lock-up show his parents fear the worst. In 1968, the Brookline Asylum’s new warden, Crawford, whispers of a mysterious ‘Patient Zero’ and dark treatments. Trapped in the asylum’s shadowed halls, Rick faces a twisting plot that threatens to strip him of sanity. He must escape before the institution claims both his life and mind.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Horror/Psychological Horror
Authors: Madeleine Roux
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