The book I'm reading is Asylum by Madeline Roux. It's all about a guy going to a college-prep camp at an asylum- turned- college in New Hampshire.
The kid, Dan, makes friends, Jordan and Abby, and the three of them explore the blocked-off historical asylum.
Dan and Abby fall into a kind of relationship, and Jordan is the token gay character/skeptic.
Everyone in town thinks the asylum is haunted, so, naturally, they go exploring. They find patient files and relics in an old office. Abby found a picture of a girl who had a lobotomy, and she became super attached. Later, she found a file telling her that her aunt had been in the asylum, and had the same name as she did. So clearly, the little girl was her aunt.
Dan keeps finding things about the old warden, who claimed to "fix" a serial killer. Plus, he's having dreams where he is the warden, so my guess is that they're related. Plus, he talked to a townie who wanted to tear the place down, and when he said his name the guy flipped.
Those two have pretty clear connections, so I think there's some mild haunting going on. Plus, everyone has changed slightly since getting there. Dan's roomie, Felix, is working out and guzzling protein shakes (which, by the way, should never be guzzled because they are SUPER GROSS) and Jordan is getting obsessive over things (and rude), and having nightmares about being locked in a cell treated with ECT (which they used to give homosexuals).
So both Abby and Jordan are acting like patients, Dan is acting like the warden, and Felix is acting like an abusive orderly.
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