Shadow's End
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MatureComplete Fri, Apr 11, 20254h 48m
Delilah Valentine and brothers, Stan and Andy Maxwell were trying to live a small town life and forget their past.
After Delilah lost her father, a veteran detective, to a missing persons case gone wrong only a week prior. She comes home from a search party in an attempt to rest, only to awaken in a reality far from her own, in a realm even dreams could never touch.
Forced to step forward into a twisted game of survival, she must hold true to herself, and every last glimmer of hope of escaping.
Secrets are to be surfaced.
Hazed memories will be washed clean by tides of darkness...
...And shadows will come to an end...
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