Vanished in Vorkuta

“I never imagined they would leave me in such a place, but this is exactly what they did.”

It was the trip of a lifetime for twenty-eight-year old historian Mikala Maliviko. Born in a small Ukrainian town near the Polish border, Mikala never expected to become such a well known history teacher in the area. Little did she know this fame would be the beginning of her downfall.

When asked to come on a trip to study the uninhabited ghost town of Vorkuta, Russia, with four other historians, Mikala couldn’t resist the offer. She thought she was in heaven as she explored the frozen buildings that once served as a GULAG prison camp under Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Until she got left there.

Mikala didn’t realize while she explored the frozen prison camp that it would soon become her own prison. Abandoned in perhaps one of the most inhospitable places in the world, Mikala has to learn to survive on her own skills with nothing but the clothes that she’s wearing. Facing sub-zero temperatures, blizzard conditions, starvation, dehydration, and isolation, Mikala wonders if she’ll ever make it out in time to see her friends and family again.