The Last One

Caz boards the RMS Atlantica for a dream Atlantic crossing with Pete, the man she has recently fallen for. The first night is everything she hoped: fine food, dancing, new acquaintances, the glamour of a great liner at sea. Then she wakes to find Pete gone and every cabin door standing open. The ship is deserted — no passengers, no crew, no one but Caz, steaming ever further from land into the middle of the ocean.

As hunger, isolation, and dread set in, Caz has to work out what happened to the hundreds of people who were aboard the night before, and whether anyone else remains. What she uncovers about the Atlantica, and about the people who booked passage on it, turns a survival ordeal into something stranger and more deliberate than an accident at sea.

Will Dean builds a tense, claustrophobic locked-room thriller out of a single unnerving premise, following one woman's fight to stay alive and sane on an empty ship with nowhere to run.