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Every year at Akure's elite private secondary school, one student vanishes without a trace. No body. No ransom. No answers. The hills swallow them whole, the police call it "runaway," and the rich parents look the other way.
Middle-class girl Adeola "Addy" Adeyemi from Owo doesn't believe any of it.
Her elder sister disappeared from this same school exactly one year ago.
Now Addy has transferred in with one mission: find out who or what is really taking students, and make them pay. Armed only with her sketchbook (where she draws every suspicious face, every late-night shadow, every whispered rumor), she steps into a world of generator-lit corridors, forbidden hill paths at dusk, and a student body that would rather forget than face the truth.
But when the school's golden boy, Kehinde "Ken" Balogun, starts noticing her drawings... and the ruthless queen bee Tomiwa "Tomi" Okonkwo realises Addy is digging too deep... the disappearances stop being just a mystery.
They become personal.
In the red laterite dust of Ondo State, some secrets leave bruises you can't see until they start bleeding.
A dark, unpredictable Akure thriller that will keep you guessing until the final page.