The first sign of the end was a low, pervasive hum that vibrated through the steel and glass of the city. For Malik and Nia, trapped seventeen floors up in their luxury skyscraper apartment, it was the prelude to a nightmare.When the 'Lucidity Virus' sweeps through Atlanta, turning the population into mindless, raging infected, their high-rise home becomes a vertical tomb. Their only hope is to go down. But in a claustrophobic survival thriller of unprecedented terror, the journey to the ground floor is a descent into hell itself.The mindless infected are only the beginning. As they navigate the building's treacherous service shafts and forgotten, lightless corridors, they realize they are not just evading the dead. They are being hunted. A patient, intelligent predator stalks them through the vents and shadows, turning their desperate escape into a deadly game of psychological suspense.To survive, they must face not only the monster that wants to play with them, but a primal horror that demands absolute silence in the building's suffocating depths. With every floor, the rules change, and the price of survival gets steeper.A relentless, heart-pounding page-turner, The Vertical Tomb is a must-read, character-driven story of sacrifice and survival in a world gone mad. In a city of the dead, will they have what it takes to reach the ground floor?