In this prequel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a young teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline asylum and must escape before becoming one of the evil Warden’s experiments. The Nightmare is Just Beginning. Ricky Desmond doesn’t belong in the Brookline asylum. His parents sent him here because they think he’s a deviantand that he can be curedbut Ricky knows there’s no cure for what he has. Soon after he arrives, Ricky learns that being locked up is only the beginning of his problems. Rumor has it that the Brookline warden authorizes treatments that aren’t entirely . . . humane. And if the screams Ricky hears coming from the basement are any indication, the rumors are an understatement. Now, with the help of a nurse, Ricky must escape before the asylum claims his sanityor his life.

Set long before Dan, Abby, and Jordan ever walked the hallways of the Brookline asylumback when it was still a functioning psych ward and not a dormEscape from Asylumis a mind-bending and scary installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide missing puzzle pieces for series fans. Read all the bone-chilling books in the Asylum series.