One war waged. Five souls damned. Twenty-four hours of horror.

The lock-in has begun. The world that Zeika has always known, decimated. After a political firestorm left her, her city, and her countrymen in ruins, illegal alchemist and civilian gunrunner Zeika Anon has chosen to walk the side of darkness.

She has joined the terrorist insurgency KOA: The Knights of Almaut, the final phalanx standing between Zeika’s people and extermination.

Protected by a single misdeed of her past, Zeika is offered the veil of “allied asylum” by Hollow 12, a cell of ghosts and orphans like her. Asylum, along with the desperate hope that the rest of the insurgency will take no notice of her as it gears up for its final battle with the Azures. But as she hides and witnesses Koa’s brutality first hand, she realizes that not all asylums are safe, not all soldiers are saviors, and not even among allies can she reveal her innermost secrets.

The third volume in The Books of Ezekiel series, The Lock In is a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic survival tale, set in the streets of a dying city that has been crushed by alchemic law. Layered with the elements of gritty crime drama, dark urban fantasy, hard sci-fi, and horror, The Lock In is a wild ride to the end of a young girl’s sanity as she struggles with an impossible choice: to keep one step ahead of a war or to be consumed by it.

Warning: The story contains coarse language, intense violence, adult/suggestive themes, and aberrant behavior. Listener discretion is advised.