REFUGE SEVENTEEN
Twelve years ago, five volunteers walked into a burning tunnel with four bottles of air and eleven people to carry out. They saved seven. Then one of them...
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REFUGE SEVENTEEN by Julian Ashvale is available in the Ebokio digital catalog as an EPUB ebook.
Price: £10.99. Language: English. Categories: Horror.
Twelve years ago, five volunteers walked into a burning tunnel with four bottles of air and eleven people to carry out. They saved seven.
Then one of them sat down at four in the morning and wrote the report — and moved a nineteen-year-old girl twelve hundred metres from the place where she actually died. Now something is correcting the record.
It begins far from the valley, with a deckhand found dead on a steel deck with no mark on him and a strip of black marking tape knotted through his bootlace.
It reaches Toril Aasheim four hundred kilometres away, in a warm flat in a good city, where a light fails for two-tenths of a second and leaves something tied to her wrist.
And then, one at a time, the world begins to file her as dead: a card refused, her name missing from a list she is standing next to, a colleague of nine years whose eyes slide off her face. The tape can be passed on. That is the worst thing about it.
It will hold on only one of five people, and every one of them knows the other four by name. Ingeborg Fosse is seventeen and keeps the radio log for the valley's mountain rescue corps, in pen, on paper, because batteries die and paper does not.
When her own mother comes home with black tape knotted through her watch strap, Inge does the only thing she has ever been trained to do — she opens the book and checks the entries against what actually happened.
What she finds is a number that was written, painted over, and written again, and a countdown to the one night each November when every light inside seven and a half kilometres of mountain is switched off.
*Refuge Seventeen* is a horror novel with rules you can work out and a monster whose case you can argue: a slow, cold, immaculately built story about guilt that cannot be worked off, a community that decided not to ask, and the terrible weight of what we write down about the dead.
For readers of Nordic suspense and character-led supernatural horror, it is the kind of book that makes you check the small print on your own life — and it does not cheat you at the end. Every thread is answered. Every promise is kept.
Read it with the lights on, then tell somebody why it stayed with you.
Book details
Details: 242 pages, about 67,689 words, published by Julian Ashvale, publication date 5 September 2026.
Estimated reading time: about 4.5 hours.
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