Every day, Amaria wakes up to the same routine, until her brother randomly disappeared. Nothing was ever the same, her mother retreated to work, her father became an alcoholic, her brother and sister distanced themselves, retreating into their own worlds, pretending as if Javiar had never existed. The family once full of laughter is now full of silence. Everyone tried to forget but for some reason Amaria couldn't, she constantly had nightmares of her little brother. Despite all of her family pretending to move on, she couldn't. One morning, months after his disappearance, one day on her walk to school, she notices a pair of sneakers dangling from a power line; the same sneakers Javiar had been wearing the day he went missing. But when she gets the shoes down from the power line she finds what she never expected, his feet. With this gruesome discovery, Amaria's worst fears have come true. Javiar is dead, but how, why, and when? Desperate for answers, she ask for help from her friends to figure out what happened. But as they dig deeper, they uncover strange coincidences, creepy areas, and a string of unsettling clues that point to something far more scary than they imagined.
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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