At Ridgecrest Psychiatric Facility, the night shift is more dangerous than the patients.

When Dr. Hazel Bailey transfers to Ridgecrest in the quiet mountains of North Carolina, she expects exhaustion, long hours, and understaffed chaos—but not Elias Vance, the enigmatic patient who speaks in riddles, dreams in symbols, and claims a cosmic force is waking beneath the hospital. As Hazel and her colleague Dr. O’Connor dig into Elias’s past, they uncover a trail of vanished nurses, strange Appalachian folklore, and a name whispered like a warning: Orootho.

The deeper Hazel descends into Ridgecrest’s shadows, the more the walls seem to shift around her, twisting reality into something dark, alive, and hungry. And when the boundary between visions and truth finally fractures, Hazel must decide whether Elias is delusional… or the only one who can stop what’s coming.

Terrifying, atmospheric, and charged with slow-burning dread, The Late Shift at Ridgecrest is a supernatural mystery where sanity is fragile—
and the night has a mind of its own.