Life for patient Twenty-Nine is full of medicated day dreaming of a life outside the walls of the walls of Soothing Hills Asylum.

But fantasies are not all that consume her.

A monster roams the halls of the sanitarium she reluctantly calls home.

Three girls have been found dead.

The dead girls share one common thread...each was Twenty-nine's cell mate.

As the investigation gets under way, Twenty-Nine retreats into her mind, listening to the voices that call to her. She is endowed with the cursed gift of perception. Through it, she hears messages carried upon the notes of music, discerns words hidden among the strokes of paintings, and minds pleadings for help from the corn field outside.

Could the key to the murders lie within Patient Twenty-Nine’s broken mind?

Mason, an orderly, sees Twenty-Nine as a woman, not a lunatic. As his belief in her grows, so does her self-confidence. The possibility of one day leaving the asylum seems less and less like a fantasy.

But the monster has other plans for Twenty-Nine. Leaving will not be so easy. At least, not while alive.