Extended Care. Hollowed Ones, #3

Three references. Three women flagged for extended care after delivering for the program. No facility address on record-just a notation where the file stops. Waverly Oaks took the job because it matched her credentials: a perinatal psychiatrist, six weeks out of a hospital position that had just shut its unit, behind on her loans. The listing described a postpartum recovery center, a select cohort of research participants, a twelve-week contract.
It didn't mention where the facility was. It didn't mention what had been done to the women before they arrived. What Waverly finds inside Meridian Wellness Partners is methodical and quiet and deeply wrong. Seven women in a remote residential facility, held past their contracted terms, medicated with compounds not in any standard protocol-including an experimental suppressant designed to interrupt the neurological process of attachment.
Four of them, in the south wing, have been given something worse. Something that doesn't erase what happened. It just removes the ability to be disturbed by it. Brynn knows she's being held. Taryn has been counting days. Neve stopped drinking the tea four months ago and has been keeping secrets ever since. And Waverly, who came here to help women recover, has thirty-six hours to document everything before the facility discovers what she's figured out.
Extended Care is the third installment in P. A. Farrell's dark biotech series-a story about what gets done to women in the name of research, about the contracts designed to be misread, and about the particular courage it takes to be the person in the room who decides to act.