All this week, we’re featuring the Escape from Furnace series by Alexander Gordon Smith. The first two books in the series — Lockdown and Solitary — are available now, with a third book on the way later this year.
We have some exciting goodies planned for you this week, including your chance to win the books, but let’s start off with an introduction to what these books are all about & how you can connect with the author:
LOCKDOWN: Escape from Furnace #1
Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison.
Together with a bunch of inmates—some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers—Alex plans an escape. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace’s deeper, darker purpose, Alex’s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that’s hidden from the eyes of the world.
SOLITARY: Escape from Furnace #2
Furnace Prison – Where death is the least of your worries. Escape is just the beginning. We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace. All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live – the warden, and something worse.
Learn more at Alexander Gordon Smith’s Official Website. And checkout the trailer for Lockdown below:
And here’s more with Alexander Gordon Smith about his series:
Novel Novice 
I haven’t read the second book yet but I really enjoyed the first one.
These novels sound great. terrifying concept. Jailed in a gas masked guard- hellacious maze . What a nightmare. just enough to keep you up all night reading. I adore horror/sci fi. these are books I WILL read one way or another. I love the cover artwork. Good illustration/photography is never to be underestimated. I want these books. They are beautifully frightening Tomes that intrigue me.