<P>Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome enigmatic and fiendishly talented Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing about magic about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts. </p><p>The writers think they are signing up for a chance at riches and literary prestige. But they are really entering the twisted imagination of a deranged genius a lethal contest pitting them against one another in a struggle for their sanity and their lives. They have entered into Roderick Wells’s most brilliant and horrible creation.</p><p>The Dark Game.</P>