Shattered Echoes

Elmsworth wasn't a hospital.
It was a cage dressed like mercy.

Raine checked in for help.
What she got was sedation, silence, and shadows that moved when no one else was looking.

She wasn't alone.
Ashton-the boy with dead eyes and fists that flinched at kindness.
Brendan and Ashley-too smart, too fast, too dangerous to keep quiet.
And Mara-scarred, bandaged, and silent, like she knew how all this would end.

When they escape, it should've been over.
But it's just the beginning.

Because the town they run to-Saint Arlen-was never abandoned.
It was built for people like them.
People they couldn't fix.
People they chose to erase.

Now they're uncovering a system made to manipulate minds, erase memories, and test the limits of human control.

The more they dig, the less they know what's real.
Who to trust.
What they are.
And if they're already too far gone to come back.

One truth remains:

They weren't the only ones.