Book excerpt: Something is happening to the children. Something is ripping them from their mother’s womb… When the townsfolk of Beaumont, Louisiana discover a young girl’s violated corpse in Congo Park, Sheriff Boone Hobbs tries to figure out what is plaguing his sleepy town. With a thirst for secrets, he digs into the case and discovers darkness lurks around every corner, and no one is safe. Hobbs thinks there can only be one reason—the return of Beaumont’s most prominent son, Dr. Oliver Duvall. But, when Oliver takes a job at Briarwood Psychiatric Hospital and meets the patient in room 432, Oliver questions his own sanity as images of a dead girl haunt him, and his life unravels. He realizes everyone has secrets. No one can bury them forever—not even him. In the moss-shrouded, misty swampland of the Louisiana Vodun, the powerful Mambo, Marie Kaine, has conjured an evil spirit to wreak havoc on the town in revenge. What started years ago will come to a horrifying climax as secrets as deep as the bayou itself are revealed. No one is safe, not even Marie, because, when it comes to revenge, everyone must pay the price. How far would you go to get revenge? A chilling and delightfully terrifying supernatural thriller, The Patient in Room 432 will make you question your own reality.