Cry Me A River

Liliana is a skilled operative, but reluctant-pulled back into the nightmarish and surreal world of the Backrooms, a labyrinth where reality bends and horrors hide in every shadow. Tasked with finding missing scientists who vanished while exploring the mysterious Complex, she joins a team of specialists: Zona, sharp and unflinching; Owen, sarcastic but capable; and Pepper and Poppy, steady and resourceful.

Their first challenge: Level 0-the endless yellow hallways with damp, squelching carpets, flickering fluorescent lights, and a metallic, musty stench that seeps into their bones. Loops, false exits, and unsettling noises toy with their senses, while a lurking entity-tall, thin, and unnervingly noodle-like-hunts anything that moves.

Forced to hide in a cramped vent, the team discovers a hidden room once inhabited by a girl named Violet. Dusty blankets, neatly lined almond water bottles, fairy lights, and dozens of meticulously kept notebooks reveal her desperate struggle to survive. One journal holds a single crucial entry, describing how she "noclipped" from school into the Backrooms-and learned its deadly rules. Her guidance becomes an invaluable map through the madness.

With Violet's notes and her own experience, Liliana quietly takes command, guiding the team through twisting, hazardous corridors where every sound, shadow, and smell could mean death. Each step deeper into the labyrinth tests their strategy, trust, and courage, as survival depends on skill, nerves, and the will to face the unimaginable.

Suspense, horror, and surrealism collide in a story that will grip readers from the first page, pulling them into a world where the rules of reality no longer apply-and escaping may not even be an option.