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Some childhood promises are meant to be kept. When broken, they can be deadly.
Iris Caldwell is a pragmatic journalist who left her childhood and her handmade puppets long behind. But when she is violently shoved through a glitching television screen by a sinister, top-hat-wearing hybrid cat, she realizes the past isn't done with her.
Trapped in a grim, steampunk dimension, Iris finds herself thrust into a twisted survival game alongside three complete strangers. Assigned the roles of human chess pieces, they are forced to play on a board where losing means losing your life.
Their captor is Rex, the Black King. He is the puppet Iris lovingly stitched together as a child and later tossed aside. Now, he wants his revenge. To survive, Iris and her new team must navigate haunted castles and frozen wastelands while fending off Rex's lethal host of mythological nightmares.
Can she outsmart the monster she created, or is this game already over?
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