Just an Echo in the Darkness
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The sky is dark, the sun gone. The only thing keeping human kind alive is their wits and their technology. And a dark secret that our heroine must uncover...
Ambria Turner is sixteen, and a Junior at Gresham High School. An average girl, with an average life. She has friends, a crush, and an annoying younger sister. Except, of course, her dad and brother disappeared.
When a heartbreak and confession leads to a kidnapping, Ambria and her friends have to fight their way back home, or suffer the consequences. Even then, not all of them will make it out alive.A
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