AT DAWN HE'LL BE GONE AND YOU'LL BE HERE FOREVER.
Kristen Simmons's masterful breakout horror novel that's "Jumanji but
Japanese-inspired" (Kendare Blake) about estranged friends playing a
deadly game in a nightmarish folkloric underworld.
"A nightmare I didn't want to end." --Terry J. Benton-Walker -
"Absorbing." --C. L. Herman - "Bone-chilling." --Lauren
Shippen - "Unforgettable." --Margaret Rogerson- "Twisted."
--Lish McBride - "Won't let me sleep!" --Chelsea Mueller - "Full
of surprises." --C. J. Redwine - "Intense." --Kendare Blake
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived.
Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the
survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one
strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian,
the friend they left for dead.
Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one
goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they
never finished--an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game
without instructions.
As soon as they begin, they're dragged out of their reality and into an
eerie hellscape of Japanese underworlds, more horrifying than even the
darkest folktales that Owen's grandmother told him. There, they meet
Shinigami, an old wise woman who explains the rules:
***They have one night to complete seven challenges or they'll all be
stuck in this world forever.
Once inseparable, the survivors now can't stand each other, but the
challenges demand they work together, think quickly, and make
sacrifices--blood, clothes, secrets, memories, and worse.
And once again, not everyone will make it out alive.
