Summary

Sanctum is the first book in a series called Guards of the Shadowlands by author Sarah Fine. Troubled teen Lela Santos survived her own suicide attempt two years ago, but it left her with visions of a frightening place that beckons her forward in her dreams. When her best friend, Nadia Vetter, succeeds in taking her own life, Lela follows the demons into a special part of hell in the hope of saving her friend, even if it means sacrificing herself.

In the Prologue, the narrator is having a cigarette midway through her first day at Warwick High School in Rhode Island. The other kids have stared at her because of her cheap clothes and the fact that she was brought to school by her new foster mother and her probation officer. She sees a well-dressed girl trying to buy drugs from...