2025-08-25
International Impact Award Winner!
Inner Sanctum: Remnant was chosen as a winner in the Science Fiction/Fantasy – Dystopian category of the 2025 International Impact Book Awards.
Inner Sanctum
Resolve
Book Two
The cover in hand for book two of the series. Remnant, the award-winning first book, is the one you can take home today.
The writings of Darlene Oakley
Darlene Oakley is a freelance writer, editor, and transcriptionist in Canada's Niagara Region.
She is the author of the award-winning Inner Sanctum: Remnant, book one of a planned four-book series. She has written more than 200 articles for dental, healthcare, and parenting readers, and she has spent 25 years in publishing.
Book One
Inner Sanctum
Remnant
Best in Science Fiction & Fantasy – Dystopian, 2025 International Impact Book Awards
The last-known remnants of life from Upper World Earth is dying. The underground city of Egerton's population – saved from almost certain death on the surface 400 years ago – is shrinking. Family Control Officer Aurora Cassle and Mayor's Assistant Den Maron must find out why. Their investigation reveals Egerton's long-forgotten history and long-buried secrets which generations of mayors have hidden from the public. Den and Aurora's research leads them to one conclusion: the only way to save their city – their people – is to return to the surface. To do so presents great risk to everyone. No one can really predict what awaits them on the surface after four centuries – wars, disease, predators. Most are willing to take the risk, but some don't want life in Egerton to change at all and do what they can to ensure no one leaves. The fight to return to the surface comes at a cost no one expects.
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