Secrets Never Die
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Vincent Ralph comes Secrets Never Die, a chilling new YA thriller about four teens whose dark secrets come back to terrorize them.
Some secrets should never have been buried . . .
We call it the Dark Place. I don’t know who built it or when but, for us, it’s special.
One night every year Sam Hall and his friends hold funerals for their secrets in an abandoned hut in the woods that they call the Dark Place. But this year, their secrets are taking on a life of their own.
Sam is a former child star whose career went up in flames—literally. And no one, not even his best friend knows why. His friends each hold a secret pertaining to the night. A secret they would all like buried.
Now someone from the past is blackmailing them with their dangerous secrets. Sam isn’t sure who he can trust, who’s watching him – or how far he’s willing to go to bury the past once and for all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seventeen-year-old Sam Hall—a former child TV star with a haunted past—has just arrived at his friend Dom's annual Halloween party when he and some classmates, including his girlfriend and Dom's sister, vacate the festivities and head into the woods. Every year, the tight-knit group engages in a secret ritual at the Dark Place, an abandoned shack in the forest: one by one, they enter the structure alone and confess a secret they've been hiding. While Sam is inside the Dark Place, he hears a terrible scream, and exits the shack to find that it's been pelted with blood-filled eggs. After the group returns to Dom's house, they begin receiving creepy text messages from someone named Sasha Craven ("Don't be shy. I just want to be friends"). They dismiss the occurrence and move on from that night. But Sam wrestles with a feeling of constantly being watched, and when the unsettling texts evolve into threatening messages about each of the teens' darkest secrets, cracks begin forming in the group's once-solid friendships. Ralph (Lock the Doors) relies on familiar thriller tropes to craft a fast-paced mystery steeped in malevolent atmosphere. Most characters are white. Ages 13–up.
