The Great Winter just got a little colder as a girl struggling to survive the frozen post-apocalypse plots her revenge against the cult that took everything she loved from her, not knowing she still has more to lose.
After getting revenge on the man who murdered his family, Michael Wells suddenly finds himself the guardian of a mysterious baby girl whom he finds in an abandoned cabin, and decides to raise her as his daughter.
Abbie Wells grows up in a community struggling through the Great Winter, but on her 15th birthday, a ghost from Michael's past comes back to haunt him, leaving their village aflame and Abbie on the run. As well as surviving in the brutal frozen wasteland, Abbie has to dodge ravanous predators, killer weather, and various groups of territorial survivors, including a radical cult led by a self-proclaimed saviour, all while trying to find the disturbing truth about her own origins.
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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