The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

This chilling tale of a young lady wrongfully detained in Willowbrook State School—a real school that was eventually closed due to horrific abuses—combines fact, fiction, and urban legend.

Even though Sage Winters and her sister were identical twins, Sage had always known that her sister was a little different. They had similar interests and a profound understanding, but Rosemary—vulnerable to all emotions and prone to tears—seemed to need more shielding from the outside world.

Sage, who is sixteen years old, still misses Rosemary terribly, six years after she passed away from pneumonia. After their mother died in an automobile accident, Sage's stepfather Alan feels he was never meant to have this duty. Though they share a small apartment on Staten Island, Sage is shocked to learn that Alan has a startling secret: Rosemary is not dead. She attended Willowbrook State School after being accepted, and she stayed there until a few days ago when she vanished.

Sage's knowledge of Willowbrook is limited. It has long been a mysterious and rumored location. a location where local parents threaten to send their wayward children. Sage sneaks out to Willowbrook, not knowing what to anticipate but anxious to locate Rosemary. She enters the facility thinking she is her sister, and what she discovers there will alter her life in ways she never could have predicted.