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Equal parts genuine haunted-house novel and razor-sharp satire of consumer culture and soul-deadening retail work, it's a fast, funny, and surprisingly frightening read about the horrors of the modern workplace.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kkfjhaprw1negedw6gg2fxam.jpg","LqN0;rbcx^t7.AadadkCoeafV@ay",248,[549],{"id":88,"slug":89,"name":90},[551,552,553,554,555],{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},{"id":57,"name":183,"slug":184,"is_fiction":19},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":495,"name":496,"slug":497,"is_fiction":19},{"id":556,"name":557,"slug":558,"is_fiction":19},118,"Satire","satire",[],{"pace":61,"complexity":10,"audience":105,"mood":561,"themes":563,"setting_period":10,"summary":10,"content_warnings":10},[562,66],"funny",[],{"id":565,"slug":566,"title":567,"description":568,"primary_cover_url":569,"cover_blurhash":570,"first_publish_year":141,"community_rating_avg":571,"community_rating_count":84,"page_count":572,"authors":573,"genres":578,"series":584,"enrichment":590},"01kkfjeewqfwwc1ygpg23y3tsa","still-missing-bg7b","Still Missing","Annie O'Sullivan is a thirty-two-year-old real-estate agent with a boyfriend, a demanding mother, and an ordinary life — until the last visitor at an open house forces her into his truck at gunpoint. For nearly a year, \"The Freak\" keeps Annie prisoner in an isolated mountain cabin, controlling every minute of her existence and subjecting her to relentless abuse, as she clings to the will to survive and escape.\n\nStructured as a series of sessions with her psychologist after she gets out, the novel alternates between the claustrophobic horror of Annie's captivity and the equally difficult work of reentering a world that no longer feels safe — reclaiming small freedoms, facing her family, and confronting the question of who was really behind her abduction.\n\nChevy Stevens's bestselling debut is a raw, propulsive psychological thriller about trauma, survival, and control, building to a twist that recasts everything Annie — and the reader — thought they knew. 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The narrator's balloon brings something stranger — cryptic photographs, mailed for years, of ordinary places that grow slowly, unmistakably closer to home.\n\nAssembled from a series of vignettes drawn from the narrator's childhood, Penpal reconstructs a set of half-remembered events — a night lost in the woods, a neighbor who disappeared, a friendship that ended badly — and gradually reveals the single disturbing pattern connecting them. 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