Fourteen year old Mark Jackson has broken his leg - but that's the least of his worries.  Lying in a hospital bed, waiting for an operation on his shattered bone, he begins to realise that several of his fellow patients have not returned from their own trips to surgery. Patients with no-one to visit them in the evenings, or miss them should they vanish without trace. Patients just like Mark, in fact...

Not for the faint-hearted, Tommy Donbavand has written a tale that will chill its readers to the bone. Each chapter becomes another step in a terrifying journey, making you feel unsure if you even want to reach the end, but too scared to look away. Here at Badger, we think our reluctant readers will be too absorbed in the story to realize how much they've read, until they've finished!