Coralee started a game of hide and seek with her best friend, when she was 14.
Now, she's 21, and they never finished the game.
Her best friend vanished in the middle of it.
Now, every year on Audrianna's birthday, the same day that they started that fateful game of hide and seek, Coralee counts down a number as a way to grieve.
She's almost to 0. The week of what would be Audrianna's 21st birthday, Coralee decides to go back to that forest and search one last time for her missing best friend. What she finds instead...is anything but.
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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