All the Crazy Girls

They were admitted in 1892. No one remembers what year it is now. Beyond the reach of maps and memory stands The Quiet House for Girls, a decaying asylum of rusted machinery, endless corridors, and locked doors that should not exist. Its patients arrive seeking treatment. None ever leave. Plum, once a celebrated prodigy, is haunted by phantom ink staining her fingertips and an uncontrollable need to draw a world she can no longer remember. December possesses "special" gifts that defy reason. Lily remains trapped within the memory of a murder no one believes she witnessed. And Juniper's volatile mind conceals truths she cannot fully understand herself. They have spent years inside The Quiet House. Or perhaps decades. Time has become as unreliable as the asylum's twisting halls. Presiding over it all is Dr. D. Ranged, a physician cast out by the medical establishment after his radical theories and cruel methods horrified even his peers. Stripped of his license, his reputation, and the future he believed he deserved, he retreated into isolation and transformed The Quiet House into his private laboratory. Here, free from oversight, he intends to prove them all wrong. His treatments are brutal. His experiments border on madness. And his obsession with restoring his name has become something far more dangerous than insanity. As the girls uncover hidden wings, uninvited visitors, and impossible evidence that they may no longer belong to the world they once knew, they begin to suspect the asylum itself is changing around them-growing, watching, remembering. And every attempt to escape only leads them deeper inside. As reality unravels around them, the girls begin to suspect the asylum itself may be alive-a labyrinth built from memory, grief, and madness. Yet the greatest horror may not be the shifting halls or the doctor who rules them. It may be the possibility that The Quiet House was built specifically for them. And it has no intention of letting them go. Because some prisons are built of brick and steel. Others are built inside the mind. A gothic steampunk thriller filled with mystery, madness, and impossible corridors, The Quiet House for Girls asks a chilling question: if the world around you is broken, how can you trust your own mind?

Pages: 376, Paperback, Independently published