title: Patient 623
author: Wingrove, Ron
description: Nurses should never fall in love with their patients. Robert Barclay isn't an average nurse. After a term in the military, and another in the prison service, he now works as a psychiatric nurse at a residential facility caring for the mentally disturbed. He's seen it all. He's the one they call when things go wrong. When a late night shift ends with the arrival of a young woman known only as Patient 623, Nurse Barclay is about to find his career, his life, his whole world turned upside down. When his training, his friends and his trusted mentor are telling him no, how can he follow his heart? Worse yet, he discovers that Patient 623 is no ordinary patient. Far from being the mentally disturbed drug addict everyone thinks she is, Patient 623 has been systematically tortured into complete psychosis by a mysterious shadowy figure both sadistic and brilliant. Nurse Barclay must wrestle with his doubts and his own feelings as he slowly pieces Patient 623's damaged psyche together, and somehow solve the mystery of her trauma... Before the figure that haunts her nightmares comes back to finish the job. Patient 623 is a romantic thriller suitable for audiences young adult and older.