[CONTENT WARNING - SUICIDE, DEATH, VIOLENCE, DRUG/ALCOHOL USE/ADDICTION - this story contains frequent and graphic mentions of all triggering topics mentioned above, and is partially centered around them.]
"We were meant to enter the afterlife, but never to leave it."
In a small, stuffy room, on the third floor of a dingy apartment building, seven people from all walks of life meet once a month to discuss the one thing that brings them together: they all claim to have returned from the dead. But every one of them tells a different tale of death and resurrection - and no one can agree on who, if any of them, lies correct, or if everyone is merely being dishonest. When the testimony of a prospective eighth member comes into play, it may push them each over the edge in a crazed attempt to prove their own story correct... no matter the cost.
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With a new name and new life, Nathan must learn to fit in at an Academy of the Feral Investigation Bureau, or risk being sent back to prison.
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Escaping prison was only the beginning for inmate C41. Now on the run and going by Nathan, he's enrolled in an American Academy for training agents and joins the Feral Investigation Bureau, charged with hunting down criminals and sending them to the same place he just escaped. But after learning how blurred the distinction is between feral and non-feral, Nathan is forced to flee with his sister and his boyfriend, only to discover their safe house hides a secret that might cost Nathan his freedom.
Content and/or Trigger Warning: sex and violence. [Note: failed suicide attempt]
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