Ira Blechman waits for a train to take him home, the last train he will ever take on the last night of his miserable, schlubby life. He has a plan. It’s all worked out. In less than an hour, by his own hand, he will leave this Earth better off for the going. Funny thing about plans . . . they unravel. For Ira, the unraveling starts with a strange train he’s never seen; the train’s only passenger, an even stranger woman, out-of-place and between worlds and who knows him better than he knows himself; and a promise broken that has unforeseen consequences that ripple across the thin veneer separating the sane world from what lies beyond. A veneer Ira is destined to tear and through which he will see the bigger plan—one waiting for him, whether or not he wants it.
One room. Six People. No way out. And every 13 minutes one of them dies-horribly. Do the math; in 78 minutes they will all be dead-unless they can figure out what their nameless, faceless, and creepily mysterious captor wants from them. One woman holds the key to their survival or deaths. But, only if she faces her own bloody past and the earth-shattering truth of why they are all trapped together. Her final choice to own the truth can bring freedom or oblivion-13 little minutes will tell the tale-for all of humanity.
