I was a psychiatric nurse for 36 years, over 26 years within the jail system. Though a work of fiction it is based on my professional experiences. Set at the fictional Raine Correctional Facility in the foothills of Orange County, Ca., this story follows Elizabeth, a psychiatric nurse who comes to California with her teenage daughter to work at the correctional facility. Elizabeth tells the stories of both the psychiatric inmates, as well as the nurses who are treating them. She finds herself caught up in a dark place full of secrets, a place where at times she must fight the system to care for her patients. It is a moving tale of regrets, hopes, tragedies and redemption, of lives that are lived differently than planned. Elizabeth, herself, is also being pursued by a sinister presence.