Cole Everard is certain he has found the missing link in the treatment of schizophrenia—a biochemical cofactor that restores what the brain cannot use. His data is solid, but inside Davenel Hospital, evidence means nothing without approval, and approval is controlled by men who value order over risk. When Cole refuses to abandon his work, his superiors decide he has gone too far—and quietly have him committed to the very ward he once studied.Locked among the patients he hoped to cu...