No Way Out: The Black Hallway

Daniel Ferro learned the signs a year ago: a cold that gathers in doorways, a smell that shouldn't be there, a grief that refuses to stay where it was buried. He and five others carry a secret that outgrew them months ago- the thing beneath Saint Dismas Hospital was never bounded to eleven cities. It was only ever the beginning. As the found family teaches a hundred-and-twenty-nine-year-old hunger to want instead of take, something else is learning too - patient, precise, and willing to teach lessons of its own. What starts as isolated grief gone wrong becomes a network stretching across the country, reaching for anyone who ever loved someone past the point where the loving had anywhere left to go. There is no sealing this off. No clean ending. Only the choice, made again and again: what's honest, or what's easy and the cost of getting it wrong. The fourth and final novel in the Black Hallway series.