No Safety In Numbers: Volume 1

Dayna Lorentz

May 2012 · No Safety In Numbers Book 1 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

"Think of the heart-racing chase of The Hunger Games, but a giant mall is your arena."--Seventeen.com

A suspenseful survival story and modern day Lord of the Flies set in a mall that looks just like yours.


A biological bomb has just been discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall. At first nobody knows if it's even life threatening, but then the entire complex is quarantined, people start getting sick, supplies start running low, and there's no way out. Among the hundreds of trapped shoppers are four teens.

These four different narrators, each with their own stories, must cope in unique, surprising manners, changing in ways they wouldn't have predicted, trying to find solace, safety, and escape at a time when the adults are behaving badly. This is a gripping look at people and how they can—and must—change under the most dire of circumstances.

And not always for the better.

Ratings and reviews

Omg imagine this into a movie. 4 teens fighting for life in a mall, each with main prombles, and ending with a cliff hanger. This would be a great pg-13 movie. So read it if you like hunger games or ask my mood ring how I feel. :-)

I would recommend this book it is very interesting and suspenseful although it is pretty short. Enjoy!

Unique idea that puts to the test if getting stuck in a mall as a teenager is really that great. Would recommend.

About the author

Dayna Lorentz has an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She used to practice law, but is now a full-time writer and part-time cupcake enthusiast. Dayna is the author of the No Safety in Numbers trilogy and lives in South Burlington, Vermont with her husband, two children, and two dogs.