THE PATIENT IN ROOM 13
A THRILLER
INTRODUCTION
She remembers everything. She wishes she didn’t.
Dr. Sloane Vance is a forensic psychologist who specializes in extreme trauma cases. She has spent fifteen years inside the minds of killers, victims, and survivors. She has never lost a patient to suicide.
Until now.
Patient Zero – the one who started it all – is dead. He threw himself from the roof of the psych ward, leaving behind a single word carved into his arm: “REMEMBER.”
Sloane is assigned to investigate. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Patient Zero’s death was not a suicide. It was a warning.
Because Patient Zero was not the only one.
Three other patients have died the same way. Same word carved into their skin. Same method. Same time of night.
And all of them were in Room 13 – a small, windowless room in the basement of the psychiatric hospital, a room that has been locked for forty years.
Sloane is determined to find the truth. But the truth has other plans.
Because Room 13 is not empty.
Something lives there. Something that has been waiting for forty years. Something that speaks in whispers and writes in blood.
And it knows Sloane’s name.
The patient in Room 13 has been expecting her.
23. THE ADMINISTRATOR’S CONFESSION