The Inmate
Brooke Sullivan starts her new job as a nurse at a maximum-security prison, but she's hiding a dangerous secret: Shane Nelson, a notorious inmate, is her former high school boyfriend - the one she helped put behind bars for murder. As Shane recognizes her and manipulates those around her, Brooke must navigate fear, temptation, and the deadly consequences of their past while trying to survive the prison's deadly environment.
- Brooke - Nurse practitioner at the prison
- Shane - Inmate, Brooke's ex-boyfriend
- Josh - Brooke's son
- Pamela - Shane's mother
- Tim - Brooke's friend
- Brooke Sullivan starts her new job at the prison.
- No one but Brooke knows that Shane is Josh's father.
- Shane manages to convince Brooke that he wasn't the one who committed the murders.
- Brooke recants her testimony from years ago and Shane secures his release from prison.
- Shane moves in with Brooke and Josh.
- Tim tells Josh that Shane is a bad man who wants to hurt his mom and never to trust him.
- Tim is wrongly arrested for the murders because the body of Kelli, a woman Tim had dated, was found in his basement.
- The truth is Shane was the real murderer all along.
- Pamela helped Shane cover up Shane's murders.
- Pamela was the one who put Kelli's body in Tim's basement to frame him.
- In a confrontation, Pamela confesses everything to Brooke and Brooke shoots Pamela.
- Josh finds Shane trapped under a snowdrift in the woods; he is dead when Brooke arrives to help.
- After Shane's death, Margie confesses to her part in the murders and framing Tim.
- Tim is released from prison.
- In the epilogue, we find out Josh killed Shane with an icicle while in the woods to protect his mother because he believed what Tim told him about Shane being a threat.
- Brooke - Alive - Happy to finally move on from the past
- Shane - Dead - Stabbed with an icicle by Josh
- Josh - Alive - No further details
- Pamela - Alive - Presumed in prison
- Tim - Alive - No further details
- Murder
- Violence
- Death of parent
- Gun violence
- Car accident
- Sexual content
- Bullying
Twist
Publisher: Hollywood Upstairs Press
ISBN: 9781728296173
Publish Date: June 13, 2022
Note: Details are for the original edition. Other formats, editions, and audiobook versions may be available.