About 110 years ago, in a small city named Selbyville, Delaware, a mass murder occurred. Twelve innocent people were killed, and their bodies were hidden in a shack just outside of town.
Now, it's 2013, and Ben, Caroline, Jenny, Myra, and Logan are psyched that their school is funding a trip all the way to New York City. But when their bus breaks down outside of the same shack that twelve bodies were found in, things take a turn for the paranormal.
In just a few nights, these five high school students are facing a malevolent entity that has been released when they opened the shack doors. In what seems to be an infinite, new, but evil universe beyond the doors of this small wooden building, a dark spirit lies. And after all these years, it's found a new target- well, new targets.
Inspired by my love for horror movies and books (The Shining, The Conjuring, Insidious), be sure you have a light on while reading this. Or, I hope it's that scary. Boo!
(Note: Although locations in this book are real, the characters and events that occur during the story are completely fictional. Selbyville, Delaware is a real place. But I can't guarantee there's a haunted shack outside the town.)
Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers.
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