Length1h 41m
About this audiobook
The cure is in the silence.
1949. The Sterling Institute looks more like a country estate than an asylum. Sunlit halls. Polished floors. Smiling patients.
But behind the calm lies a celebrated new psychiatric procedure that doesn’t heal the mind—it erases it.
Nurse Beatrice Hayes, a former WWII combat nurse from Jacksonville, knows trauma. She knows grief. And she knows the difference between peace and absence. When a brilliant young heiress is admitted for being “difficult,” Bea realizes Sterling isn’t treating illness it’s manufacturing obedience.
As powerful men praise the doctor who perfected the ten-minute lobotomy, Bea must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect the minds entrusted to her care.
Because sometimes the most terrifying sound isn’t screaming.
It’s when the screaming stops.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Historical Fiction
Length1 hr 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Arrival
8The Weight Of Staying
2Not Sick
9The Line
3The Weak Link
10The Audit
4The Residue
11Audit Part 2
5Temperature
12The Return
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6The Seam
13The Silence That Wins
7The Demonstration
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