Years ago, at the Overbrook Insane Asylum in Essex County, New Jersey, a plague took over... The disease was widespread and the people affected by it were drastically changed, to say the least. See, when a doctor named Nelson Broussard decided that he wanted to perform tests on the patients without consulting the other doctors and without their consent, one of those tests went worse than them all. After the experiment, it was known that at night a creature roamed the halls of the asylum, and anyone seen in the halls would be found dead the next morning with claw-like markings all across their bodies and fang-like bite marks on their necks.
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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