Seven years ago, the world ended. The surface burned, the skies collapsed, and humanity fled underground. In the sprawling labyrinth of Bunker 17, survivors cling to routine, order, and silence, believing the surface to be uninhabitable and their sanctuary secure.
But Elian Ward, a nineteen‑year‑old communications officer, knows something is wrong. The radios pick up whispers that aren't supposed to exist. Lights flicker in patterns that don't match the power grid. Entire families vanish behind sealed doors, erased from memory as if they were never there.
And deep in the uncharted lower levels, something is stirring, something that was buried long before the Collapse, something that remembers every name, every voice, and every secret the survivors tried to leave behind.
Trapped between the lies above and the horror below, Elian must decide which is more dangerous: the world outside... or the one they're already in.