Six teens are devoted to a game with one rule: If a player gets tagged, they must change their life within the next fifteen minutes. The better the player, the bigger the change. One might give their car away, or punch the school bully. Another might change identities or sacrifice their virginity. Anything to keep evolving, to avoid fitting into a label or caring about the junk they own. But their quest for enlightenment has taken a rotten final turn - one of the players has murdered the game's creator, the teen prophet (cult leader?) David Bloom. Our narrator is being framed for the crime; can he clear his name and discover which of his lifelong friends is the murderer before he takes the fall? [sic] is a gritty teen murder mystery that delves into the psychology of enlightenment among the criminally dysfunctional.

Betrayed. Forgotten. Five abandoned friends with nowhere to go, on the run from their parents who now wanted to kill them. Portrayed as liars and traitors, and forced to leave their home, what will become of the five innocent, young demigods?

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

My name is Layla. I had no idea who my parents are or who exactly I was. When I was 14, I froze to death in some random snowstorm in NYC. A year later, Manny gave me a job I didn't think much of at that time--an immortal laughter-giver. I thought I was completely alone in this whole wide world, until one day I found out something that turned my boring new life 360 degrees around.