The Inmate

By Freida McFadden

A nurse's past with a dangerous inmate threatens her safety and sanity in a maximum-security prison.

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336 pages· 77,991 words

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Brooke Sullivan, a new nurse at a maximum-security prison, must navigate a perilous secret: her past with Shane Nelson, a notorious inmate and former high school sweetheart. Shane, once a golden boy, now serves life for brutal murders—convicted by Brooke's own testimony. As Brooke struggles to maintain her professional facade, Shane's knowledge of their shared history looms ominously. Can she uphold the prison's strict rules, or will her hidden connection to Shane unravel everything? In this tense thriller, the lines between guilt and innocence blur, leaving Brooke to question who truly deserves to be behind bars.

From the publisher

A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!The guiltiest people aren’t always the ones behind bars…As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect.Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.But nobody knows that Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.They certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart–the star quarterback, the golden boy who’s serving a life sentence for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke’s testimony was what put him there.But Shane knows. He knows more than anyone. And he will never forget.The Inmate is a propulsive, mind-bending thriller about how we define guilt–and who has to pay for it, from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden.

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