Bram Johnstone likes to think he’s a good person. But does a "nice guy" stalk the girl of his dreams? Does he follow her to the library, to university lectures - in fact everywhere - simply to glimpse her shapely curves? To what lengths would he go just to engineer a situation where he’s in close proximity to the fair Maddie - even if only for a couple of precious minutes?

As luck would have it, such an opportunity arises. One evening, Bram finds himself in the same lift as Maddie. On the way up he gets to observe her, smell her perfume, even talk to her. There are a few flies in the ointment of this gift scenario, however. The object of his affections is accompanied by a friend. To add to Bram’s irritation, the most available babe-magnet on campus muscles in on the lift threesome and imposes his well-honed chat-up lines on Maddie. Funny how your dreams can turn sour in an instant.

But dreams can turn from sour to putrid. The lift malfunctions and becomes stranded between two floors of the 80 story student block - and something very large lands on the lift roof. Something that slobbers and snarls. Something that eats students. Whatever it is, the thing isn’t operating alone. Over the emergency intercom, a tormentor makes himself known, someone who directs and orchestrates the murderous intents of the thing that’s made planetfall on the students’ little world.

As the minutes tick by on a countdown that can only end with them becoming meat for this murderous pair, Bram discovers that when it comes to stalking - he’s just an amateur. From the author of The Psychonaut trilogy and Mycophoria, comes a novella of breath-taking intensity. Just when you thought the lift was ascending, it ends up plunging further down into your deepest nightmare.

After listening to this book, you’ll probably want to take the stairs.