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All Tish Lewis knew was that it was dark.

And cold.

How long had she been in this place? And where exactly was she?

She had long since stopped screaming. No one had come in response to her screams.

Why? Why was she being held?

Ransom? That’s what she thought at first. Someone had kidnapped her and was demanding money from her father. But that was before she began to hear the chanting through the door. The terrible singing.

That was before she heard the scream.

It was a girl’s scream. She knew that. And she thought she knew who the girl was, too.

Her roommate, Joelle.

Tish began to cry again. She was starting to lose hope that she’d ever get out of this room alive. What worried her most now was how her death would come, not if. They had taken her for a reason—they’d taken Joelle, too, and Tish was certain it was Joelle’s scream of death that she had heard. They’d taken both girls to kill them.

But who “they” were and why they wanted to kill them was unknown. And it was the unknown that Tish feared most…