In Salem Massachusetts, 1692, there was once a girl, her name was Marabelle Adams. Marabelle was a normal girl, her father was a rich landowner, and her mother stayed in the house cooking and cleaning. But everything was about to change for the worst. At age 9, her older brother died from the plague, and her mother was hung for being a 'witch'. So Marabelle poisoned her father for accusing her mother of witchcraft for the money. After her rollercoaster of a ride, Marabelle was accused of witchcraft for the first time, but she was pardoned, the townsfolk saying she was too young to be a witch.
Then after years in the orphanage she was accused again, and this time she was put on trial, but she ran away, deep into the woods, accompanied by the ghost of Ivy, another accused girl, who had been hanged days before. Marabelle was reunited with all of the people, now ghosts, who had been accused of witchcraft. But her adventure ended when she was caught trying to steal food from a town that bordered Salem. Marabelle was brought back to the place she used to call home, the place where she took her last breath and the place where she would live on, just not as a physical being, more as, a presence.
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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