warmest-flames
When Hall Abrams disappears, the town of Blackwater Ridge decides he's dead-because that's easier than asking who made him vanish.
Jude Castañeda was the last person to see Hall alive. Now his name is everywhere: whispered in hallways, shredded across group chats, carved into the school's trophies like a warning. Videos corrupt. Witnesses "forget." Even the yearbook starts erasing faces-starting with Lena Voss, the girl the system insists doesn't exist.
Then Jude wakes up from a hospital bed with a bandage on his throat... and a message on his phone telling him to "stay on your side."
In a town that edits reality like it's content, the only way to save Hall is to follow the trail of broken mirrors and missing records-before Jude gets rewritten into the villain, and the truth disappears for good.
Because in Blackwater Ridge, the most dangerous thing you can do... is remember.