Ravenhollow has a good school, a bad basement, and a way of misplacing people quietly enough that nobody has to notice.
Mia Turner has junior year, a best friend she is about to start lying to, and no idea that any of that is the easy part.
One hour into the first day, something starts putting text behind her eyes. It knows her name. Her age. Her strengths. Her flaws.
And apparently it has opinions.
WARNING:Encounter risk rises near sunset.First encounter likely within 24 hours.Recommendation:Do not remain alone.
Which would be easier advice to follow if Mia weren’t already very good at doing exactly the opposite.
No portal. No other world. No safe logout. Just Biology, cafeteria fries, a father teaching her to drive, a boy whose full name she learns before she manages to say a word to him — and a town that gives up its secrets slowly.
So does the thing behind her eyes.
Both of them are counting.
