Something isn’t quite right in Waylingbrooke, New Hampshire—a fact that Dr. Patrick Denny discovers shortly after abandoning his successful career as a horror novelist to return to psychiatry. Taking a position at Everston Psychiatric Hospital, his unorthodox methods challenge the institution’s rigid reliance on medication. However, as he delves deeper into his patients’ troubled minds, Patrick’s own tormented past begins to bleed into his present, and the macabre storyteller within him threatens to emerge. As stories seem to birth stories and reality loses its edges, he must question whether his return to psychiatry offers deliverance or signals his final descent into madness. With masterful prose, Tammy Gregg crafts a psychological suspense novel that examines how the stories we tell ourselves shape our understanding of reality.