Sarah walks through the crumbling halls of Sanitarium #032, searching for answers about her sister's disappearance. The institution closed decades ago, but something still moves in its shadows. Each room holds fragments of the past: restraints hanging from rusted beds, patient files scattered across moldy floors, and voices that whisper from empty cells. Sarah discovers that her sister was never officially discharged. The deeper she ventures into the asylum's maze of corridors, the more the building seems to respond to her presence. Doors slam shut behind her. The temperature drops without warning. She finds her sister's journal hidden in a wall cavity, its pages filled with increasingly frantic entries about experiments that should never have happened. As night falls, Sarah realizes she may have found more than she bargained for. The sanitarium refuses to let go of those who enter, and her sister's fate may soon become her own. This is a story about the bonds between siblings and the lengths we go to protect the people we love.
Genres: suspense, mystery, horror, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Sanitarium #032
Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: mental-illness