Patient Zero

"Corners carry weight."At Blackridge Sanitarium, every day follows the same routine. The bells ring, the meals arrive, and the patients are expected to follow the rules without question.To the staff, he's just another number: Six-One-Six. But the other patients know him by a different name. Patient Zero. Nobody seems to know where the name came from, only that the treatments don't work on him, and that there's something about him the doctors would rather keep quiet.When strange things begin happening throughout Blackridge, Zero starts looking for answers. Doors lead to places that shouldn't exist. Sounds travel through the walls. Entire corridors seem to change when nobody's watching. And the deeper he digs, the more he begins to suspect that the sanitarium is hiding something far worse than the patients locked inside.Above it all is Dr. Syde, a man determined to maintain control, no matter what it takes to keep the truth buried.With every discovery, Zero gets closer to understanding what Blackridge really is, why he's there, and what it might take to get out. But escaping won't be as simple as finding an unlocked door. The stories surrounding Patient Zero have been spreading for years, and some of them were never meant to help him.Patient Zero is a psychological horror novel that explores isolation, control, disturbing experiments, and the lengths someone will go to reclaim their freedom.At Blackridge Sanitarium, there's a reason nobody talks about what happens behind closed doors.And some secrets were never meant to get out.