Shadows

Her voice trembles. "You can stop pretending. It clearly isn't working,"

Please believe my lies.

"I didn't think she would be so quick to catch on." Her mother declares, Staring at Reanna's tangled hair down to her mud cover feet, with a twig poking through one. "Considering her state,"

"You were wrong, she isn't an easy meal," Liam gave Reanna a smile that reaches his ears. His childish voice shifts into a deep crumbly tone.

"She's the feast,"
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After dying one Christmas night on the icy roads of her hometown, Reanna Ericka finds herself in the Afterlife. Looking like she just came out of war, she has no memories of how she got the bit marks on her skin or the torn dress on her body. She only remembers her death. She decides to fulfill the promise that she made to her older sister when they were children. To meet each other in the afterlife if something happened to them. Two years earlier, her sister died in a college shooting, leaving Reanna with their abusive parents and younger brother, Liam. In the afterlife, Reanna hears her brother's pleas for help. She runs into a dead forest to save him. Unknowing that the forest is filled with monsters that pretend to be your loved ones just to eat you. Soon after avoiding her second death she learns that she had a life in the afterlife as an angel. She decides to find her memories and reunite with her sister. Travelling to Heaven with a guardian angel, and Death himself. She learns the many rules of survival in the afterlife in her travels. The first rule: Trust No One.