Echoes in the Asylum

What if memory isn’t something you carry—what if it’s something that carries you?

Dr. Elise Warren has spent her life turning trauma into tidy diagnoses. At Dunlow Institute, a psychiatric facility with more secrets than staff, detachment isn’t just survival—it’s policy. But when a classified file marked only with the name “Madeline Grey” lands on her desk, Elise is pulled into a case that defies science, sanity, and time itself.

Madeline claims she’s been a patient since 1968. She appears twenty-nine. She remembers events from before the building’s renovations—before Elise’s own mother was institutionalized there. And as Elise begins to unravel the case, the walls of Dunlow start whispering back.

Beneath the archives and the east wing lies a forgotten experiment, one designed to extract and manipulate memory itself. Project Echo. Officially buried. Unofficially… still pulsing. Madeline isn’t the first to remember what was meant to be erased. And Elise may not be the first version of herself to try.

As hallucinations blur with inherited trauma and a buried past bleeds into the present, Elise must make a choice: protect the institution’s legacy or expose the echo at its core—even if it means losing her mind, her future, or the truth of who she really is.

Taut, cerebral, and deeply haunting, Echoes in the Asylum is a psychological thriller for readers of Sharp Objects, Shutter Island, and The Silent Patient. It’s about the dangers of memory, the weight of inheritance, and what happens when the past refuses to stay buried.

Some stories aren’t told. They’re relived.