"Years after escaping Hawkins Lab, two of Dr. Brenner's former subjects, Ricky and Marcie, seek to live normal lives. When news reaches them that the lab was shut down, they go on a harrowing search for Nine, a powerful pyrokinetic whose shattered psyche threatens to burn them all to ashes if they can't find her and free her from her own malevolent imagination. As they get closer to Nine, they'll find even more secrets buried with Hawkins Lab. Will they be able to find her before she destroys everything?"--Back cover.