The Darkness, is a debut, full-length 50K word novel written by Marc Sloane. It all started with an itch... Arriving home to Los Angeles from Japan after a weeklong business trip, Brian Pace contracts the deadly Shinjuku X virus. Six month's later, and lucky to survive he wakes up in a hospital bed, surrounded by death with one thing on his his wife Veronica and his five-year-old son Jackson. He rushes home to look for them, but they're long gone. The desert, he's told, is where they went, but getting there in a land of blood thirsty men and violent animals proves near impossible. Brian is tested, again and again, ultimately forcing him to redraw the rules of what he considers right and wrong, struggling to stay inside them. In a world where the only law is survival, some rules are meant to broken. And they will be. This title is part of a trilogy, the two remaining installments to be released sometime in 2015.