For ten years they have lived in peace, not safety, the new world is never safe, what happened at the school proved that. Malorie made the camp her home and it is where Olympia and Tom have grown up, from children through to the sixteen-year-old teenagers that they now both are. Camp Yadin is closed-off and isolated from the wider world with the nearest neighbour miles away. In the resulting craziness and the chaos of the massacre Malorie, Olympia and Tom are forced to leave, abandoning the school, escaping, alone again, but for each other.Īfter fleeing the school they found refuge in Camp Yadin, an abandoned Summer Holiday Camp where they have spent the last decade. It only takes one look, one person glimpsing a creature to bring down, to destroy what has been built, like a house of cards, falling and an outbreak of madness destroys the sanctuary of the school. A couple of years have passed for Malorie, Olympia and Tom in the relative safety of the school, but nothing lasts forever and when one of the creatures gets inside the veneer of safety that they have been living under is erased in an instant as violence erupts. Malorie begins where Bird Box ended at the Jane Tucker School for the Blind. Two names for whom she’ll break every rule, and take her children across the wilderness, in the hope of becoming a family again… But he leaves a list of names – of survivors building a future beyond the darkness – and on that list are two names Malorie knows. When a census-taker stops by their refuge, he is not welcome. Now nearly teenagers, survival is no longer enough. In that time, Malorie has raised her two children – Olympia and Tom – on the run or in hiding. Many have lost their minds, their lives, their loved ones. In the seventeen years since the ‘creatures’ appeared, many people have broken that rule.

In the new world there is only one that matters: don’t open your eyes.

Malorie by Josh Malerman