The Sanctum is a luxurious, self-sustaining survival condominium situated underground. It's a plush bolt-hole for the rich and paranoid - a place where they can wait out the apocalypse in style. When a devastating super-flu virus hits, several families race to reach The Sanctum. All have their own motivations for entering. All are hiding secrets. But when the door locks and someone dies, they realize the greatest threat to their survival may not be above ground - it may already be inside ...
S.L. Grey Books
S.L. Grey is the collaborative pen name for authors Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg. Lotz, a novelist and screenwriter with a deep passion for all things zombie, also crafts crime novels and thrillers under her own name, and pens young adult zombie fiction with her daughter. Greenberg, a fiction writer and editor, brings a scholarly depth to his work, holding doctorates in vampire and post-religious apocalyptic fiction. Together, they merge their distinct expertise and interests to create compelling and unsettling narratives.
Mark and Steph are struggling to move on with their lives after armed robbers broke into their home and brutalized them. Shaken, they decide to get away and leave their troubles behind. A house swap in Paris with a couple they meet online, the Petits, seems to provide the perfect escape. But upon arriving for a week's luxurious break, they find themselves in a festering, run-down apartment. And when Steph attempts to contact the Petits, she gets no answer. Mark and Steph try to make the most of the trip, but they are unable to relax. After a series of increasingly unsettling events, they decide to return home. Yet when they arrive, neither of them can shake the feeling that there's now something sinister about their own house. As time passes, Mark is terrorized by a series of unsettling visions. But is it all in his imagination or is there a far more worrying explanation?
Dan arbeitet in einem Buchladen in einem trostlosen Einkaufszentrum, wo nie etwas passiert. Er hasst seinen Job.§Da taucht die drogensüchtige Rhoda auf. Der kleine Junge, für den sie heute den Babysitter spielt, ist spurlos in der Menschenmenge verschwunden. In ihrer Verzweiflung zückt Rhoda ein Messer und verlangt, dass Dan ihr bei der Suche nach dem Kind hilft. Als die beiden durch das finstere Kellerlabyrinth des Einkaufszentrums irren, wo sich alte Schaufensterpuppen zu riesigen Bergen auftürmen, wird eine keuchende Kreatur auf sie aufmerksam. Die beiden flüchten in einen Lastenaufzug - doch der hält nicht mehr an, saust hinab, hinab, immer tiefer in die Eingeweide des Gebäudes. Dan und Rhoda ahnen, dass das Spiel gerade erst begonnen hat.