Detective Elias Thorne is used to finding people who don’t want to be found. But when he’s hired to locate a senator’s daughter inside the ruins of St. Jude’s Asylum—a facility struck from official maps in 1954—he finds a building that breathes. The mystery of the girl’s disappearance unfolds into a visceral nightmare: the asylum isn’t a prison for the mad, but a biological machine designed to harvest human grief. Elias must solve the “Enigma of the Pale Patient” before his own tragic past becomes the fuel for the building’s next meal.
