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Inside lives Ted Bannerman — unemployed, forgetful, quietly strange — along with a daughter who is never allowed outside and a devout house cat named Olivia who believes it is her sacred duty to protect him. Ted knows the neighbours think the worst of him. He also knows there are gaps in his memory he would rather not examine.\n\nThen Dee moves into the empty house next door. Years earlier, her little sister vanished from a nearby lake, and Dee has never stopped searching. She is certain Ted knows something. As she watches him, and as the narrative shifts between Ted, Olivia, and Dee, the reader is pulled into a story where nothing is stable and no account can be trusted.\n\nCatriona Ward's genre-bending psychological horror is a masterclass in misdirection — unbearably tense, deeply unsettling, and built around a structure that reveals itself only piece by piece. 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It's a harmless game — until, one summer in 1986, a trail of chalk figures leads them into the woods and to a discovery that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.\n\nThirty years later, Eddie is a schoolteacher trying to keep the past buried, when an anonymous letter arrives bearing a single chalk figure. He's not the only one; the surviving members of the old group each receive the same message. As the two timelines close in on one another, Eddie is forced back into the events of that summer and the question of what really happened — and who among them has never stopped playing the game.\n\nC.J. 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