Patient IX

A locked filing cabinet. A patient who doesn't exist. Dr. Thomas Lansing has built a careful life—eight clients, a respected Boston practice, a marriage he believes is solid. Then he discovers a ninth file: fabricated therapy transcripts written in his own voice, threaded with secrets he's never told anyone. The anonymous author gives him twenty-one days before everything goes public. To find the truth, Thomas must follow the evidence back fifteen years to a shuttered youth facility and a diagnosis that may have destroyed a teenager's life.