Synopsis:

Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are.

With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they’ve been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers.

But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. As Laura, Daniel, and Mo grapple with the pieces of the lives they left behind, and Laura’s sister, Susannah, attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she fears, these mysterious others begin to arrive, engulfing their community in danger and chaos, and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert a looming disaster.

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What To Expect:

Readers can expect a magic realism fantasy and thriller that tests the limits of family, friendship and love and touches upon the concept of death, magic and power: with LGBTQ+ rep.

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Content Warnings:

Language: Moderate

Sexual Content: Moderate Fade to Black – Not detailed

Violence: Heavy – Gore, blood, murder, emotional abuse, physical abuse, cannibalism, injury detail, vomit

Substance Use: Mild

Prejudices: Minor – Racism, homophobia

Religious Themes: None

Other Topics: Grief and death (heavy), pregnancy and child death (minor)

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