Ward D

Medical student Amy Brenner has been dreading one rotation above all others: an overnight shift on Ward D, the hospital’s locked inpatient psychiatric unit. From the moment the doors seal behind her, the night feels wrong, and Amy can’t shake the sense that something dangerous is moving through the ward.

As the hours stretch on and patients and staff start to disappear without explanation, it becomes clear that not everyone behind the locked doors is who they claim to be, and that Amy may not make it to morning. Her present danger keeps pulling at wounds from her own past, blurring the line between the unit’s secrets and her own.

Set almost entirely in a single confined location over one long night, the novel wrings claustrophobic suspense from a setting designed to keep people in.