Five girls. One locked hospital. And the terrifying truth that their illnesses aren't the only threat.

Sixteen-year-old Maya is admitted after a manic spiral she can't remember. Riley, fifteen, hides behind silence and scars. Jade, seventeen, hears voices the staff dismiss as delusions. Harper, sixteen, doesn't sleep — her hypervigilance born from a past she can't outrun. And Sofia, fifteen, masks her body shame with sharp words and sharper ink, filling notebooks with everything the ward wants erased.

They're told they're here for treatment. For safety. For healing. But inside the ward's locked doors, the rules tighten like noose-knots: no secrets, no noise, no leaving. Blackouts swallow patients in the night. Scraps of truth are confiscated before they spread. And whispers about "processing" grow louder every time someone vanishes.

When the five girls are drawn together by fear, defiance, and fragile trust, they begin to see the ward for what it really is: not a place of care, but a system designed to erase them one by one. Together, they fight back with the only weapons they have — fists, words, screams, and each other.

But survival comes at a cost. And in a place where silence is enforced, the loudest voices may be the first to disappear.

Raw, relentless, and unforgettable, We All Break Here is a YA psychological thriller for fans of Karen M. McManus, Courtney Summers, and Kathleen Glasgow. At once a pulse-pounding mystery and a haunting portrait of mental illness, it asks the question no one in the ward dares to say aloud:

How do you hold on to yourself in a world built to erase you?