Jennifer Balstad Van Winkle

When nurse Lindsay Reed transfers to St. Claud, a crumbling hospital in the isolated town of Rawlins Bend, she expects a slower pace - not a reality that unravels around her. Patients vanish without discharge. Records rewrite themselves. And the people who once greeted her with warm familiarity begin to look through her like a stranger. Then an elderly patient whispers a name that no longer exists, and Lindsay discovers the hospital is home to something that doesn't feed on blood.
but on memory. As her grip on time, truth, and even her own identity begins to fade, Lindsay must fight to remember who she is - and uncover what's been buried beneath the quiet all along. Because in Rawlins Bend, forgetting isn't mercy. It's how you disappear.