Inside the Outside

By: Lastrapes, Martin

The Hunger Games meets The Handmaid's Tale in this haunting LGBTQ+ horror thriller about a teenage cannibal's desperate bid for freedom.

Fifteen-year-old Timber Marlow has only ever known one truth: The Divinity of Feminine Reproach, a murderous cannibal cult hidden deep in the San Bernardino Mountains. Ritual is law. Hair is evil. And the Outside, the world beyond the compound's borders, is forbidden.

Raised on manipulation, ritual abuse, and a twisted kind of devotion, Timber has spent her whole life being told what to believe. But belief has never silenced the questions underneath.

Then Timber breaks the cult's most sacred rule.

What follows is a relentless unraveling of buried secrets, dangerous alliances, and everything she thought she knew. To claim a life of her own, Timber will have to survive both the family that raised her and the world she was never meant to enter.

Inside the Outside is a dark, award-winning story of love, trauma, and the primal hunger that lives in us all...and the fierce hope that survives it.

BONUS STORIES: This special 15th anniversary hardcover edition includes two stories that expand the world of Inside the Outside beyond the original novel, "The Revenge of City Marlow" and "Footsteps," along with other exclusive extras.

★★★★★

GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Paris Book Festival

FIRST PLACE WINNER: Hollywood Book Festival

AWARD-WINNING FINALIST: New York Book Festival

AWARD-WINNING FINALIST: San Francisco Book Festival

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985704381
• ISBN13: 9780985704384
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Martin Lastrapes
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"