Benny McTown has always been a coward—and he knows it. After years of scraping by as a vagrant, he finally found stability as a city guardsman, complete with his first real home. But when a newly discovered labyrinth promises riches to those brave enough to explore it, desperation and greed drive him to volunteer for what everyone knows is likely a suicide mission.

Now trapped in the depths with his companions dead or fled, Benny faces horrors no one prepared him for. The monsters stalking these halls appear in no bestiary, the traps claim lives without warning, and worst of all, his fellow explorers have sealed the entrance—condemning him and the remaining survivors to a slow death in the darkness.

But something happens when a coward has nothing left to lose. As Benny fights to survive in a place designed to kill him, he discovers that the weak-willed can become surprisingly hard to kill. With death closing in from all sides, he must choose between the comfortable surrender he's always known and a desperate fight for survival that might forge him into someone he never thought he could be.

The question isn't whether Benny will escape the labyrinth—it's whether the man who emerges will still be the same coward who entered.

End of Volume 1