Basically we have the main character, Amy. She is an employee at the Orsk store, but is hoping to get transferred back to the Orsk store she had worked at before, mainly because she's not a fan of her boss. Her boss's name is Basil. And she feels like he is always pushing at her, like he doesn't think she can do her job. On this day it starts with some weird things happening as the store gets ready to open. Some doors aren't opening, the escalators don't turn on right away, a couch is found with what looks and smells like someone took a dirty diaper and smeared it all over. And when Amy tries to sneak around a back way to avoid Basil, she sees a man that she doesn't recognize as an employee in the store before they have opened. When she gets called to the office, she assumes she is going to get fired. But another employee, Ruth Anne is also sitting by his office waiting to talk to Basil. And since Ruth Anne is like "the" model employee, Amy thinks maybe something else is going on. It turns out that the district manager wants them to figure out what is happening to cause these weird things before corporate people stop by. So Basil asks Amy and Ruth Anne to stay at the store overnight to help him catch whoever might be causing these issues.
The night starts out pretty uneventful. Other than when Amy keeps going to the bathroom to get away from Basil's annoying talking, she notices graffiti showing up that is new. And then when they go out to do their rounds, they find that one of the doors won't lock. When they split up to continue the rounds, Amy and Ruth Anne run into two other employees, Trinity and Matt, who have snuck in to do their own investigating, only they are there to look for ghosts. Part of the reasoning behind their search for the paranormal is all the people who have received text messages from unknown numbers saying "help" whenever they've had their phones in the store. Also, Trinity has done research showing that the store was built on land that was once a prison with a bad history.
Of course all kinds of scary things begin to occur, they get separated, and things go from bad to worse. When Amy tries to call 911 to get the police there, against Basil's initial wishes, the cops can't seem to find the store, their GPS tells them there is no such location. In the end, not all of them will make it out, and those who do will not know how to go on as if the night never happened.
When I say scary things, I mean extremely creepy things. I could totally see this as a horror movie, the descriptions of what happen were definitely pretty detailed and like I said, scary. The catalog pictures go from being pretty realistic seeming types of furniture to horror/torture contraptions that go along with the story. A fun, scary read, as well as a quick one.
