Crossed: Clues
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"A white flash.
Penelo's cup lay broken on the ground, steaming coffee seeping around it."
As an orphan, Penelo lives in her dorm, at Alexander Vanity's private school, in Portland, Washington. They've provided her with everything she needs, since she was 6 years old. But when everyone vanishes, black creatures start roaming, and a strange letter with clues is left to her, she has to go on a journey across North America with others like her, to figure out what happened.
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