Summary:
Lane Gains, a twenty nine year old businessman is living in the hellish
shadow of the American Dream. He has it all, the wealth, the job,
the women. And the torment of a heroin addiction that’s left
his soul a vacant hole. But when a violent childhood secret sends
his brother to his grave, Lane propels further into his addiction,
leading him to construct his own personal hell.
We find Lane bailing his brother Reg out of jail, a paraplegic alcoholic
that has given up on life. When Reg confesses that he’s given
up the bottle, only to trigger a hellish siege of nightmares materializing
on the streets around him, we learn that he and Lane share a devastating
childhood secret that is eating away at Reg’s conscious. Lane
blows it off, blaming it on his drinking, and turns his back on his
brother. When Reg takes his life, the suicide sends Lane further into
his addiction…And to the hellish memories of a secret he has
kept with Reg for too long. The blurred lines of reality and drug
addiction take their toll. Lane sees no other solution. With the aid
of his drug pusher, he finds a deserted house, cut away from any contact
to anyone, and barricades it with steel doors and steel bars across
every window. Lane will kick the drug habit, isolated from everyone
and everything he knows.
The house is found, a mammoth four room, two story farmhouse twenty
miles away from anyone. The pusher takes Lane to the house, and they
say their goodbyes, and his fate is cemented when the Pusher is killed
in a car crash on the road leaving the house. No one knows of the
plan. And Lane is left in the house for two months, as his food supply,
water, and sanity are cut away from him by something unseen in the
house terrorizing him.
Is it his addiction?...Or is someone in the house with him? To unlock
the doors, Lane must relive his past and face the horrid secret he
has kept from everyone, and himself…Leading him down to his
own personally built Hell.
