[some games are completely addicting. other games are utterly boring. but this game is officially deadly.]
No one knows why it happened.
And nobody knows they're there.
A large selection of the school-- students and staff alike-- both trapped in a cluttered, unsanitary underground school run by... nobody?
Nobody except a girl named Anya. For reasons unknown, she's placed them all in her own game she calls Exit-- a game of survival in which students and staff are forced to kill one another, hurt one another, or hurt themselves to earn exit points. With enough exit points you are sent home through the Exit, at long last safe from anymore harm.
When you pick a card, what will you get? Nobody wants to know.
Trying to escape results in punishment. Disobeying the rules results in punishment. Defying Anya results in death. So what do you prefer? Surviving, or morals?
But many questions remain unanswered. Where is this place? What is this place? Why are they here? And who is Anya?
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
*****
Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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