"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?
17 year old Morgan Cassidy is forced to spend her Summer at Cheshire's Mental institution. The idea seemed completely oblivious to her. Why would she want to spend her summer here and not with her friends? Her illness wasn't bad. Well it was but compared to the other patients placed here she seemed perfectly normal.The only joy she found out of this place was a boy. One who in the start seems completely normal. One who grew to know everything about her but she herself knew nothing about him. What will Morgan find out about this boy and what events will take place if your planning on reading this story at night you may want to ask yourself a question. Are you afraid of the dark?