Beginning like any normal day at work at Grill’N’Shake, Marco walks outside for a break when he is almost run down by a familiar car. It was Mike and Drew, who had it out for him after he had accidentally scratched Mike's car a few days earlier. Running, hiding, and heavy breathing. Was this Marco’s last day?  Marco ducks in a dark and damp closet, hoping Mike wouldn't search in there. Not even a few seconds later, he hears an unfamiliar beeping, in the vents of the super mall. A small box and flashing lights, and a 911 call. At first it doesn't seem so bad -- free food, gift cards for the inconvenience, being in a mall all day could be fun… till outbreak, and chaos. Will they even get out? How was the senator to know that the procedure for this was evacuation?

A thrilling book of confusion, sickness, and heartbreak. When the truth is kept secret from even the senators own daughter, Shay searches for the truth finding only more disturbing things.

This book is a heart racing read that's impossible to put down, from the lies and deception, to family fighting, and an outbreak of a lethal sickness. With four different perspectives from Marco, Shay, Lexi, and Ryan, each gives a different feeling from classic one protagonist books. You get a truly inclusive feeling of anxiety and claustrophobia when switching from character to character, seeing how someone with family all trap in the mall together get by compared to a character who is completely alone and cut off from his family tries to survive. Every experience is chilling and switches and changes the outlook of each other perspective.

This book that gives you chill with each switching view that leaves you with cliffhangers from chapter to chapter, with realistic language and feelings from each character making it feel like a truly real and desperate story. With  a possible biological bomb in the vents of a mega-mall that holds hundreds of people who clearly have no idea what's actually going, nor do they question what's going until true chaos crashes down upon an what is only to tell a mildly inconvenient situation.

When hunger hits and food shortages start to come about, the “mall-walker” starts to get mad and riots break out , the four protagonists are faced with violence threats for formally trusted authority figures and have to figure out how to save fallen family members taken by unknown men in hazmat suits. Will they ever make it out alive? Will they ever be told the truth? Find out in No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz