{"product_id":"2940157026479","title":"Shelter in Place: A standalone story in the world of BUNKER 12","description":"Originally published as Lockdown in the FUTURE CHRONICLES: THE DOOMSDAY CHRONICLES anthology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sudden and chaotic lockdown at an elementary school shifts a third grade teacher into survival mode. But what begins as a vague threat of unknown origin, soon reveals itself to be much more personal and deadly for her and the children in her charge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis story features events at the intersection between the worlds of my companion series THE FLENSE and BUNKER 12.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBUNKER 12\u003cbr\u003eRequiring no more than the slightest skin-to-skin contact, the Flense spread across the globe with ruthless speed and stealth, decimating mankind before it was barely even aware of it. The infected were turned into soulless creatures, Wraiths, which wrought destruction upon anyone and anything in their path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecure inside ten isolated bunkers are Humanity's tattered remains, each working tirelessly to unravel the mystery of the scourge. But the bunkers were never meant to protect forever. In fact, they were never meant to protect at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot): Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then a series of disturbing events culminates in the sudden appearance of a stranger at their door. Before he too falls victim to the mysterious sickness known as the Flense, he warns them of a fate more horrific than the one they've been avoiding. But to prevent it, they must leave and seek a place many insist doesn't exist, a mythical twelfth bunker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSign up to be notified of new releases \u0026amp; exclusive giveaways, including advance access: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FLENSE (companion series to BUNKER 12)\u003cbr\u003eHundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off the Libyan coast. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContracted by an apocalypse prepper group to investigate a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, a young freelance medical reporter, Angelique de l'Enfantine, uncovers a disturbing pattern: each event is preceded by the sudden spread of a mysterious ailment and is followed by the appearance of a man dressed in black and silver who witnesses claim is the devil himself. Are the tragedies harbingers of an impending biblical catastrophe or practice runs of a fanatical organization bent on global annihilation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith each event more grisly than the last and the risk to her life growing, Angel must ask herself if her sponsors are using her to advance their own paranoid agenda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FLENSE consists of 4 full-length novels (also serialized in 12 novella-length installments of ~100 pages each) beginning Jul 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the creator of the highly acclaimed epic cyberpunk series GAMELAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGAMELAND SERIES DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003eBuilt in the middle of Long Island's abandoned industrial wasteland is a hundred-square-mile virtual reality arcade where the rich and privileged compete in a high-stakes game and the undead are their real-life avatars. There are only two ways to get into this horrifying yet wildly addictive game. The first is by paid invitation. The second is by volunteering to become an Undead Player.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter finding themselves trapped inside a massive gaming arcade in the middle of Long Island's abandoned wasteland, a group of young computer hackers must figure out how to escape while staying out of the clutches of its undead inhabitants and their living controllers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGet Episode One: Deep Into the Game free: A reckless end-of-summer prank sends six hackers trespassing onto abandoned Long Island hoping for a glimpse of the victims of the decade-old outbreak.","brand":"Brinestone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114799579376,"sku":"2940157026479","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157026479_p0.jpg?v=1764089907","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157026479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}