"Beloved"

"Summer of 2006, Anna Lee Winston was reported missing, last seen with her younger sister and a neighborhood boy. Reportedly dabbling in a black magic book, this could have caused this young girls disappearance, the two kids being the only subjects" That was the very moment my life crumbled within my hands.
Life is a tedious thing. You spend a long time not being a twinkle in a eye. Then you spend more years being a spic of dust from the era you lived in. You get only 100 years to make your story,
"But what does it mean to die before you even write the first paragraph?" This is the question of 17 year old introvert, Kalila, who'd always been content with her sister's disappearance from painful months of her being gone, months of being blamed.
This changed when a mysterious, and quiet upperclassmen named Zale saved her life from a mythical beast inside of the very book that'd killed her sister. Only for him to bring her on the journey of her lifetime, to find her long lost family