Rona Jaffe 
Mazes and Monsters 
A Novel

Part thriller, part love story, Mazes and Monstersis a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the ‘;steam tunnel incidents’ of the 1970s, the four friends Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbieeventually take their game too far when they decide to live-action role-play in the caverns near their college campus. What follows is terrifying and unexpected, as each character dives deep into the darkest part of their mind, those forbidden places where our most menacing truths lie.