In the mysterious city of Oubliette, where the streets shift and memories vanish, lives Calamus Break, a cartographer with an extraordinary gift-or curse. He can map the cracks in reality, charting the voids where forgotten moments and lost possibilities reside. As Calamus becomes consumed by the very cracks he maps, his own memories begin to slip away. Driven by a desperate need to restore what's lost, he embarks on a perilous journey to The Great Silence, the source of all cracks. Faced with an impossible choice, Calamus must decide whether to seal the voids and save the city, or surrender to the silence and become a part of the very thing he has spent his life charting. A haunting tale of sacrifice, memory, and the unseen spaces between moments.
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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