Temple of the Blind

No I haven't stopped reading.  After I finished Brian Harmon's book The Box, I wanted to keep reading the series The Temple of the Blind.  Once I got all the books, I've just kept reading book by book.  I'm almost finished with the last one.  He has a new book out called Spirit Ears and Prophet Sight.  I'll read that next while I wait for the latest book in the Rushed series, A Matter of Time.

Temple of the Blind

When Albert finds a mysterious wooden box waiting for him in the driver's seat of his locked car, he has no idea that it will lead him on an extraordinary and terrifying adventure. Each clue he unravels leads only to more questions as he pieces together a map of the complex, subterranean system that lies beneath the city and the strange labyrinth hidden deep within. Can he discover the meaning behind the box? Or will the endless darkness and the things that lurk unseen within these walls swallow him forever?

A little more than one year ago, Albert and Brandy discovered a fantastic labyrinth hidden deep beneath the streets of Briar Hills, Missouri. Now, strange telephone messages are stirring up the memories of those dark passages and it seems that it may be time for them to return to that perilous, underground world to finish what they started. But when a strange envelope is given to him by a girl named Andrea, Albert finds that he is being steered not toward the university’s steam tunnels, where he began his last journey, but to the bizarre ruins of Gilbert House in the woods north of the campus. Together with Brandy and her best friend, Nicole, Albert ventures into the forest in search of answers. There, amid the crumbling walls and overgrown brush, they encounter Wayne, another local student who was also lured to these ruins by a mysterious envelope. Banding together, the four of them descend into the recently opened cellar door and discover the nightmarish secrets that have long been hidden within the terrible hallways of Gilbert House.

Having survived the nightmare that he and his friends found hidden within the crumbling ruins of Gilbert House, Albert Cross is newly determined to seek out the answers he has long been denied. He suspects that at least some of those answers may await him in the mysterious underground labyrinth he and Brandy discovered the previous year, the place he calls The Temple of the Blind. But to get there, he and his friends will have to deal with a madwoman, avoid the strange and deadly creatures that prowl the dark passageways and decipher the remaining clues to unlock the temple’s map. To make matters worse, the man with no eyes awaits them with a very unpleasant demand. 

Will his friends choose to remain by his side? And will he finally be able to conquer the fear room?

“The things in this tunnel are imaginary as long as you don’t prove them otherwise…” This was the warning of the Sentinel Queen. But can Wayne really ignore these “imaginary” things to save his own life? Separated from the companions he had grown to trust, Wayne stands alone as he prepares to take his first steps on a journey through a terrifying, personal hell. The dark and ancient tunnel that lies before him will test his courage to its very limits and force him to face the greatest fears he has ever known…and even the past he seeks to flee. And even if he is strong enough to endure this torturous passage, does he have what it takes to survive what lies beyond? The things that lurk in the Wood are not imaginary. It is a place of immeasurable darkness and despair, a place where death is eternal, but never final…

 

Urged onward by the mysterious Sentinel Queen, Albert, Brandy and Nicole venture ever deeper into the Temple of the Blind…and into the greatest danger they have yet faced. Endless miles of twisting passageways and perilous chambers stand before them, and with Albert’s box of clues finally exhausted, they will have to navigate the dark corridors utterly blind. And time is ticking as a dangerous beast stalks them with murderous intent. Meanwhile, Wayne struggles to catch up to them with a warning that all may not be as it seems. Someone is lying to them. Is it the mysterious old man who aided Wayne in his journey into the Wood? Or is it the kindly Sentinel Queen? Together, the six of them must decide who to trust. The very fate of the world may hinge on the actions they take this night. 

Albert Cross emerges from the terrifying labyrinths of the Temple of the Blind with a broken arm and a burdened heart, only to discover that he and his friends must now climb to the summit of a mountain engulfed in fire. Lost in a world of perpetual darkness, surrounded by countless miles of deadly forest, they have no choice but to journey onward or perish in this strange land where little separates the living from the dead. Exhausted, hungry and weak, they will need to rely on every skill they have to survive this final task, including those skills they don’t yet know they possess.