This story takes place in the first person point of view of Connor Henderson, alongside his three lifelong friends, the smart-assed (Yeah, there is going to be swearing, sorry) jokester Alex Kaine, the random, outgoing Isabel Jenssen, and the tech savvy, nerdy but sarcastic, Robert Belfast. He is returning to the woods he was as a child, where something terrible happened. A creature virtually ruined his life. His friends all tell him that he was seeing things, and his mind was playing tricks on him in the dark, but he still believes it was something else. He comes armed and ready. But... What he finds in the place where his childhood was destroyed... May be far worse than he'd first imagined.
Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers.
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