Welcome To Paradise ✶ School Spirits
Emerson Hernandez had always known exactly who she was. She knew she loved the sharp snap of bubblegum between her teeth, no matter how much it irritated those around her. She knew she had a creative eye-one that could take her far if only the world weren't so determined to clip her wings. And she knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that love was nothing more than a carefully spun lie.
Every man in her life had proved it. Her father, a ghost of a man who had built a second life in another town, as if she and her mother were nothing more than an afterthought. The boys on the playground, who banned her from their games because she wasn't "tough enough." Kenny Dixon, her ex-boyfriend, who always reached for a high before he ever reached for her. And Mr. Ells, her gym teacher, the first man she truly believed was different. He wasn't.
So on Halloween night, 1994, Emerson had a plan. Every man who had wronged her would face the truth of what they were. She was ready to expose them, to make sure they could never hurt anyone the way they had hurt her.
But the plan never came to life.
A cryptic note appeared in her locker, luring her to the pool under the veil of night. And from that moment on, Emerson Hernandez never left the halls of Split River High again.
Thirty years have passed, yet Emerson Hernandez remains trapped within the walls of Split River High. She is bound to the school, tethered to a fate she never chose, and the only way out is to uncover the key to her own passing. But the afterlife has a cruel sense of humor. Wally Clark is flirtatious, infuriatingly charming, and endlessly persistent. The former football player frozen in time has made it his personal mission to chip away at Emerson's carefully built walls, to convince her that not all men are monsters, that love isn't the lie she's always believed it to be.
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DAYLIGHT...
UNIVERSE, SCHOOL SPIRIT
TIMELINE, SEASON 1 -
PAIRING(S), WALLY CLARK X FEMALE OC
