"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got their first, and is waiting." - Terry Pratchett
Lynn Richards is a nurse that works at the infamous asylum, Burrington Manor Mental Institution for the Criminally Insane. On October 8, 1956, a new male patient, Phoenix Sharpe, is admitted to the Institution. Lynn can't help but to find the new patient attractive, dark, intimidating, and arrogant. What will happen when she and this mental patient start to bond? Will everything work out exceptional for Lynn and Phoenix or will their lives, and sanity, crumble?