The Graceview Patient: A Novel [Hardcover]

MiserymeetsInvasion of the Body Snatchersin this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author ofThe Death of Jane Lawrence.

Margarets rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but shes making do as best she canuntil shes offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls.

CAITLIN STARLING is the nationally bestselling author ofThe Death of Jane Lawrence, the Bram Stoker-nominatedThe Luminous Dead, andLast To Leave The Room. Her newest novelsThe Starving SaintsandThe Graceview Patientepitomize her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted hospitals. Her short fiction has been published by GrimDark Magazine andNeon Hemlock, and her nonfiction has appeared inNightmare,Uncanny, andNightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts. Shes always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.

[A] genre-bending tour de force... Equal parts medical drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, the book pulls readers in and refuses to let them go. Library Journal, starred review

Starling expertly immerses the reader in Megs anxiety, shol³.