Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that stereotypically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts: these concepts include advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. The genre can explore science and technology in different ways, such as human responses to or the consequences of theoretical new advancements.