Notes in a Mirror

The year is 1950. The place: Hillside Mental Hospital. In this atmosphere of hopelessness and despair come student nurses from surrounding hospitals for their three month psychiatric rotation.One of them begins dreaming about a patient who died here in the previous century. The woman sends the student messages in mirror image writing. The young nurse becomes obsessed with finding her grave to prove the woman was real. She risks her life in a blinding snow storm. Does she find what she is looking for?

In this historical fiction tale, Helen Osterman uses her knowledge as a nurse in this thriller.