It's hard to love, when he's a monster

Alex is 12 when her parents suddenly make her move to New York leaving her house that she grew up in and her best friend Shawn behind. Five years later when she is 17 her dad gets involved with the wrong kind of people and create a series of horror. Alex is worried something might have happened to Shawn when he doesn't pick up his phone so she drives back to Santa Barbara but on the way she finds a group of survivors claiming to be the only ones left.

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ok I would write more in detail but I don't feel like it I mean you will read it in the book well anyhow Alex stays with the group but keeps looking for Shawn an the first chapter is a symbol for later on.