The New Girl's Patient by Ruthann Jagge

Rating: ★★★★★

Genre: Horror

Format: eBook

Pages: 41

Read: 01/24/22

Amazon Synopsis:

Jamie Carver is an inexperienced young woman eager to change her life.
Recently certified in nursing, she’s the new girl working at a facility for the elderly.
When her favorite patient dies, the frail woman leaves her a handwritten recipe book as a final thank you.
Dark secrets of Elizabeth’s life hide between the pages.
One evening, a pair of dangerous men intent on learning Elizabeth’s secrets to steal her fortune brutally abduct Jamie and two of her girlfriends.
They trap the women deep in the cellar of a crumbling mansion, where their survival depends on each other. They must unravel a shocking family history before sunrise or die.

Can Jamie rely on her friends, or will she resort to calling on unnatural forces to help overcome her captors and stay alive?

Review:

"Crees Crossing is unremarkable. The rural southern town is barely a dot on any map. It's a stop if you're desperate for fuel or a cold drink, but never a destination. The area has no notable citizens, remarkable architecture, or exciting history attracting visitors."

Jaime is her name but to everyone else she is the new girl. Just a rural southern girl trying to establish herself as a nurse. The facility she works at is not a place for healing the elderly, it is where they go to live out their last days.

Jamie develops a close relationship with Elizabeth, a patient who becomes very special to her. When she passes away, she leaves a very special gift for Jaime. Little does she know that this gift will change her life and put her in harms way.

What ensues is horrifying and becomes a fight for survival.

We are given an opening of some of Jaime's history and her small rural life. Family, friendships and care of humanity. History of Elizabeth's broken life she was forced to live which leads us into the darkness. We are than quickly smacked with a brutality that is extremely dark and visceral and the only salvation may lie within Elizabeth's mysterious gift.

Darkly atmospheric with a unique supernatural twist and in the end a little light and love.

Ruthann has given us a wonderful gift in her story telling!

"Wash the flesh and wipe away the blood. Swallow a tear for the night's new love. Needle the heart and tie the thread. No rest for you yet. There's work for the dead." 

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