[Darkness Series 01] • The Fifth

“Legend has it that the world was created in 7 days. I don't know if that`s true or not but what I do know is that it only took 7 days for everything to go to shit and the world to end as we know it!”

Born into poverty, controlled by drug-fuelled parents, Sadie McNeil has had a hard life. On the cusp of adulthood, tragedy strikes leaving both Sadie and her older brother Sol orphaned. When Sol moves thousands of miles away for a job offer, alone and miserable Sadie believes this is the lowest life will ever get. On a rare night out celebrating her eighteenth birthday everything changes, and in the blink of an eye, she meets Ryan. He’s everything she’s not. Her polar opposite. And everything she didn’t know she was looking for.

For Seven long years, things could not be more perfect for Sadie. More normal.

When an unprecedented earthquake happens halfway across the world, Sadie believes it to be nothing more than mother nature at its worst. Bad yes, but something the world could recover from.

However, forces far bigger than she could ever imagine are at play and unbeknown to her she is stuck right in the middle…