For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, a summer program for the gifted students is the chance of a lifetime. No one else at his high school gets his weird fascinations with history and science, but at the New Hampshire College Prep program, such quirks are all but required. Dan arrives to find that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay on the crumbling Brookline dorm-formerly a psychiatric hospital. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan starT exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on here...secrets that link Dan and his friends go the asylum's dark past. Because it turns out Brookline was no ordinary psych wars. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.