Meet Matty Towzan, a city boy who moves to a place unfamiliar to him, a small village in the south of England. His mother, a firm believer of mythology, chose his name; Matty: a strong fighter.
From busy London, into the quiet countryside, he is no longer the boy everyone wants to be but the awkward boy no one wants to be.
He is pulled towards a house everyone avoids; the house next door.
Along with the house, comes a girl.
Meet Leta, 'the hidden one', a girl who is secretive and haunted, living in that big, old house with only her creepy aunt for company.
Since their encounter, everything he sees is different. Strange things begin to occur. Weird messages from an unknown number. Strange noises in the night...
The home where Leta lives is completely, unnoticeably cut off from everyone else.
A hint of fear roams in Matty.
Will he prove that he is a fighter? Or will he fail and succumb to fear?
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.
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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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