Marine veteran Logan Talbot would do anything to save his dying best friend, even accepting a stranger's invitation to a competition with a prize that seems too good to be true. A Black Friday contest with the potential to win millions.

But when Logan arrives at a shuttered shopping mall, he discovers the horrifying truth. He's trapped in a game with only one rule:

Kill or be killed.

A single mother clutching her last chance. A wannabe model tired of selling her body online. A corrupt cop indebted to a merciless gangster. A terrified college student realizing her scholarship isn't worth her life. All pawns in a twisted game broadcast live for depraved sadists from the darkest corners of the web.

With snipers at every exit and explosives set to go off before dawn, participants will be forced into unthinkable acts of violence to survive a contest of carnage orchestrated by a madman.

In this savage battle for survival, there's only one way out, over the corpses of your opponents.

Mercy is weakness.

Trust is fatal.

The price of winning is your humanity.

James Kaine, author of My Pet Werewolf and Pursuit brings you a blood-soaked tale of terror that will have you asking: