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Time 1h 37m

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Viciously abused as a young girl, 32-year-old Katie Hawthorne has become a skilled child psychologist. With things going well at work and steady income flowing in, Katie's life feels like it's on the fast track until one afternoon, Jay, her estranged brother and former abuser, appears at a family reunion. 
After a 24- year separation, her cunning brother assures her that he's turned over a new leaf, attempting to woo her by moving into her neighborhood. But just when Katie is on the verge of forgiveness, one by one, locals begin to disappear, and Katie finds herself questioning her own sanity on whether the dangerously unstable Jay she'd grown up with is truly gone, or if once again this is another attempt to get close enough to destroy her.All Rights Reserved

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