Brandon Cornett

Purgatory Brandon Cornett

The year is 2065, and Purgatory is the hottest thing on television. The survival-based reality show places death-row inmates on a remote island populated by horrors-some genetically engineered, some conjured, all of them deadly. Those who succeed serve the remainder of their sentences in Paradise, a minimum-security facility with open visitation and other luxuries. Failure, on the other hand, means death.

Devin Booker sits on death row in the Ultramax Prison near Denver, wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit. He will never again see his wife or daughter in person, house rules of the Ultramax. So when he gets the chance to take on Purgatory, he seizes it. Devin joins a motley crew of convicts who, like him, long for a better life.

The rules are simple: visit the island and collect three "souvenirs" within three days. But the odds are stacked against them. Most who visit Purgatory die there. If he wants to see his family again, Devin will have to rely on his special forces training and a handful of convicted killers. Can he survive the horrors of Purgatory to reach Paradise?