It's Christmas Day when Darcy Valena's world flips upside down. She spends every holiday with her sister, Kenzie, but when she doesn't show up this year, Darcy has a sick feeling gnawing at the bottom of her stomach. Something isn't right.
In order to unveil what happened to her sister, Darcy must relive the night of December 23rd and rehash details spanning back to her childhood. With the help of her town's local police department and investigative unit, Darcy finds herself hunting leads that take her back to events she planned to keep buried forever and to revelations she never could have imagined.
"I know your weakness. You want to be fair, you want to do right, you want to be the good guy. I could give you a depression you'd never crawl out of."
Sometimes, no matter the turmoil in our lives, it's the seemingly irrelevant, simple, normal things that heighten our pulse and tighten our stomachs.
Sam Grant has come to that conclusion over the last months because after all his adventures and near-death experiences, he's still stressed out about exams.
But the ordinary morphs into the unexpected when Snitch Gravel decides to break their silent deal. Home is no longer safe and rules no longer apply.
As Sam and Tom try to fix what has been broken in the delicate balance between their two lives, the rest of the group embarks on a new mission to dig out one more jewel before Snitch Gravel finds it. But with no leader and just a vague hint, it's turning out to be harder than expected as tension within the group bubbles to boiling point.
But glory waits for no one. The race is on.
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Highest rank #63 in Adventure