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.

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Hailey Powers left Chicago at nineteen, vowing to never look back even if it meant leaving CJ Montgomery, and a piece of her heart, behind. She has changed in her time away - grown stronger, done things no one could have predicted, and raised a daughter almost entirely on her own. When she returns to Chicago under the most difficult of circumstances, she will be thrust into CJ’s life and career, the very things he’s made without her. She’ll need his help and his heart. Can she go home? And when she does, will it be to a place or to a person? CJ Montgomery has made peace with her leaving, at least that is what he tells himself to get through his days and nights. Thirteen years have passed since Hailey walked away - hand in hand with CJ’s best friend, Jamie, no less. Are thirteen years long enough for a heart to forget? He’s tried to let her go, made a life as a surgeon, a brother, a son. He’s dated more than his share of women - more than his brothers’ shares too. But there will be only one Hailey in his life, and he has always believed in second chances. When she reappears in his life, in his hospital, and in need of his help, will the choices Hailey made in life keep them reliving the past or give them a second chance at the future? Powers’ Pulse is a story of friendship, secrets, and letting love lead you home - no matter where or who that might be. Love finds a way.

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