The Dead Room
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Ten strangers. One sealed room.
Trust is a luxury. Memory is a weapon. The walls are keeping score.
Maura wakes with no memory of who she is, or how she got there.
Everyone has questions. No one has answers. As suspicions grow and reality begins to fray, she becomes the fractured voice at the heart of a mystery none of them understand.
This story unfolds in three parts: Containment, Distortion, and Revelation.
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