Synopsis: "The once-famous Hotel Iberia was where society's finest gathered in the days before 1859 when Victory, Louisiana became a ghost town. A building where people had laughed, dined and passed the time among friends became something dark, sinister and evil. So no one complained when the Victory Institution for the Criminally Insane opened in the old hotel. The state sent its violent, disturbed men to the Asylum, men who entered the gates of hell and never came back. Hundreds died inside those walls, now for a century, the building has been abandoned. But only by the living." ― paraphrased from this book's product page on the Amazon.com website as of 2019-03-31.