Many of us have worked dead-end jobs as teens. You know the kind I mean; jobs that help you earn spending money during high school, but you honestly can't see yourself staying there past graduation. But this story takes that name literally - and these teens don't all make it out of that last night of work alive.
This is a creepy thriller set in a closed shopping mall. The teens work at the last business still in operation, the movie theater. Now the theater has reached its last night and everyone is eager to finish cleanup and head out for a celebratory meal together. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. The doors are locked, their keys and phones are locked in the safe and only the manager can get them back out, and now the manager has disappeared. And they start finding the bodies. Is it one of them or are they trapped with a stranger who is a killer?
As they try to survive the night and find a way out of the mall they are thwarted time and again. When one plan after another fails they begin to doubt each other. Trust unravels. Their numbers dwindle. And they begin to fear none of them will make it out alive. The writing brings the deserted mall to an eerie reality in our imaginations as the kids scramble through the empty food court, hide behind abandoned kiosks, and search through storefronts covered with drop cloths for an exit.
If you have ever had a nightmare where a familiar place became almost unrecognizable and frightening, then you will be able to sympathize with the characters trapped in this once everyday setting. You may never see a mall the same way again.
This just came out in May and will give plenty of readers chills despite the summer heat.
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