HIDDEN
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Some secrets are buried for a reason.
I never questioned why my best friends were always so protective. Why they disappeared on full moon nights. Why they flinched at certain sounds I couldn't hear.
Then my dad returned from a long work trip.
He wasn't the same.
Before I could figure out what had changed, he disappeared.
Not an accident.
Not random.
A mystery. A murder.
Suddenly, everything I thought I knew began to unravel.
My dad was hiding something.
My friends were hiding something too.
And the strange things I've been experiencing?
They've been waiting for this moment all along.
Tiana Raine James is just your ordinary straight-A high school student finds herself getting dangerously close to a truth her friends have spent years hiding.
Will Tiana uncover the truth before it finds her first?
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