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The town of Beldon is shaken when the body of a freshman is found in Lake Algonquin. Daniel Byers, a sixteen‑year‑old student, initially accepts the death as accidental, but a vision at the funeral forces him to question what he believes. Determined to uncover the truth, Daniel confronts the line between reality and madness as his sense of the world begins to unravel.
Confronting both the mystery of Emily’s death and his own deteriorating sanity, Daniel's investigation pushes him into a precarious mental state where he struggles to distinguish fact from hallucination. In this tense thriller, the thin veil between the real and the imagined threatens to overwhelm him.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Steven James
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