They arrive alive. They always leave dead.

But before they go, they tell me everything.

My name’s Jack Steen, night nurse in an asylum for the criminally insane—where mercy is optional, and every secret comes with a pulse that’s fading fast. My job isn’t to save them. It’s to listen.

For years, I’ve recorded their deathbed confessions in the dead of night, one story at a time. What began as whispers caught on tape has now been transcribed—unedited, unfiltered, raw. These aren’t stories meant to be read so much as listened to, in the quiet hours when even your own heartbeat sounds too loud.

With that in mind, they read as they would for a podcast episode, complete with notes meant for the narrator. Since this was fully intended as an audiobook only, please note, the text itself has not been seen by a professional editor.

In this book are four of the confessions that still haunt me:

Origins and Death – how it all began, and the inmate whose final words changed everything.

The Dying Kind – a man who proved love can kill faster than hate.

A Killer Recipe – a baker who folded murder into his pastries and devotion into his lies.

The Angel Maker – a nurse who claimed she only offered mercy… until her own sins came calling.

This is the world I live in—one where the walls listen, the dying speak, and silence is never what it seems.

Only Jack Knows: Origins to Angels — Notes from the Night Nurse.

Originally told in whispers. Listen now.