This is Niko Vale's last chance: win the games and earn his innocence, or die.
Sentenced to life for a crime he can never take back, Niko signs up for The Severance, a brutal and horrifying series of trials where prisoners gamble everything for one impossible prize: freedom. The rules? Survive the unthinkable, betray anyone who stands in your way, and outlast the rest. The cost? Your sanity, your humanity-and maybe your soul.
Niko thinks he's ready for the blood and terror, but when he comes face-to-face with ASHER GRADY, his high school bully, the stakes shift. Neither of them knows why the other is here, but secrets have a way of surfacing in The Severance. Forced into a fragile alliance, Niko and Asher must navigate deadly betrayals, gruesome trials, and their own haunting pasts.
As the games spiral into chaos, Niko is forced to ask himself: how far is he willing to go to survive? Because winning doesn't just cost blood-it demands becoming something far worse than the crimes that brought you here.
After the devastating loss of her younger brother at the start of summer, 18-year-old Mira has shut herself off from the world, drifting further away from her friends as college awaits. On the last Friday before they all part ways, her friends plan one final adventure, breaking into their old high school for a night of fun. Mira only agrees to come along to keep an eye on her younger cousin, but when a strange incident in the computer lab suddenly plunges them into an weird, deserted version of their city, the night takes a terrifying turn.
Now, Mira and her friends are players in a deadly game where survival means outsmarting those games all over the city. With each game, they begin to uncover cryptic clues that hint at a way home. Along the way new bonds are made and some are lost, however the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: escaping this world won't just test their strength it will force them to face fears they tried to leave behind.
Though will they even make it back home or will they be destined to a terrible fate?
!Inspired by the manga and Netflix series "Alice in Borderland"
!Complete story and all characters are original
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