"Miss Midnight, you got a sexy little nurse outfit in the back for me?" I glared at him as he started stalking towards me. "Fuck off, Thylus." Qucik, this guy is quick! In an instant his giant long arm helped bridge the gap between us, his hand around my neck in a second. Eyes wide, I grabbed his hand trying to loosen his grip. His body was up against mine now, he was staring down at me. Sarah yelped and tried to rush over, but he shoved her across the room pretty damn easily. She hit the floor with a loud thud.
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MATURE CONTENT
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Midnight, a travel nurse, realizes it's time to return home and take care of her mother. After a decade, who knows what's waiting for her back home. In this part of the Ozarks, drugs, abuse, rape, is all apart of the subculture. Once you're in, you're never really out. Years of trauma, abuse and survival, mixed in with normalcy and pretty scenery can really screw a person up.
Darius, after a failed a marriage and split custody must not figure out where his shitty life is going. He's a large man with a larger temper. His mom ran off when he was little, and his dad won't last 6 months. Drugs and sex run the world, and this world belongs to him, he's jsut letting Thylus run it while he figures things out.
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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