YA Speculative
Horror Thriller
LORD OF THE FLIES meets SQUID GAME in this YA Speculative Horror:
Dolen can’t remember a world beyond The Place—an endless indoor playground floating in the void. Here, barefoot boys with shaved heads, the “dwellers,” are forced into deadly games devised by Tasker, a wicked overseer of shadows and nightmares.
Winners eat. Losers vanish.
But as the games grow deadlier and Dolen uncovers what happens to the eliminated, survival means finding a way out. Every tunnel, ball pit, and climbing net hides new terrors: faceless ivory men that move like broken film, candy that warps the mind, and a monster that hunts anyone who strays too far at night.
Life inside The Place fractures when a new dweller arrives, sowing dangerous prophecies and false hope.
Armed only with his wits, stubborn resolve, and fragments of a life he can’t remember, Dolen must risk everything to escape. Because the only prize worth winning is the one he’s already lost, and claiming it may cost him more than he can bear.
Z. T. Fairfax 