Assassin of Dreams

Mildred Akins waved goodbye to her eldest son, Daniel, as he departed for school on that typical fall morning in 1944. Moments later, the local sheriff and his deputy arrived at her door, wrestled her into a strait jacket, gagged her with a stained handkerchief, drove her down the narrow tree lined road that lead to Lynball State Hospital for the criminally insane, and left her. Night after night, month after month, year after year...the forty four year old wife of a prominent physician and the mother to two young sons, lay⎯all but buried⎯in the bowels of that ungodly asylum. Filthy, isolated, tortured...the more she struggled, the more she screamed, the more she begged for answers, the worse things became, until finally...she stopped. For the remainder of her confinement, she kept to herself; she rarely spoke; she prayed, constantly and silently, that she'd done nothing to warrant her brutal punishment; and then she waited. After eighteen years, she is free...her goal: to find o