Clay Was Taken

Clay and George have been friends since they were toddlers, and they both think there is no way their friendship could be divided. When Clay goes missing one day, everything that they had is destroyed in a slow, cruel way.

a bitter man, desperate to avenge his best friend, hurts the one he's supposed to be defending

A boy once filled with dreams and thoughts and smiles grows into a man hurt by the voices and insanity that mocks him every day

Warning: there are references to self harm and severe depression. All of those are in bold. There will be warnings in all of the chapters that contain self harm references. This book is also about murder. Because there is a lot of that there won't be tags in those chapters