The Bad Ones

NEW FROM MELISSA ALBERT - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HAZEL WOOD* House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; THE BAD ONES is a page-turning supernatural thriller about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history - and one girl searching for the truth. A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . . . Goddess; Goddess; count to five. In the morning; who's alive? One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora's best friend; Becca; is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth; she uncovers dark events in her high school's history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban legend: a goddess figure; who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games . . . As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery; it's clear there are dark forces at work in her town - and they're willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep. Praise for Melissa Albert: 'I couldn't put it down' Karen M. McManus 'Taut; haunting; and potent as a witches brew' Krystal Sutherland 'Every line reads like an incantation' V.E. Schwab