Sweet dreams isn't one of Merle's favorite sentences.
Only because it a lie, and she despised lies.
Nothing about her dreams is sweet.
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Merle's life hadn't ever been normal, not her reality and not her dreams. They played a cruel game on her every night, a game where she was just a hopeless prey for the predators of her imagination and subconscious. She sleeps only to see fragments of a world those same dreams will create.
Her mind, her brain, or more precisely her dreams, controlled reality.
Over the years, she had become severely engrossed in her own troubles that she didn't even consider the idea of others like her existing.
Or one specific person who might end all her misery.
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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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