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Claire Mercer thought maps were the only truth—until the ledger at Blackpine Ridge began to keep account. When a remote mountain town trades a promise recorded in ink for a strange, supernatural balance, Claire is pulled into a slow, bureaucratic hunger that steals people’s presence, one name at a time. Friends vanish. Legal safeguards become instruments. A child made of ledger and hollow keeps time. Claire must choose: obey the book’s cruel arithmetic or pay with memory, blood, and what she loves most.

Sixteen-year-old Jodie Chalker’s life changes the instant the visions begin. What feels like a nightmare quickly becomes a horrifying reality—when she brushes against someone, she’s dragged into their final moments. Pain. Terror. Death. When her mother is critically injured in a mysterious car accident and Jodie herself is abducted outside her school, she realizes the visions aren’t random. A ruthless organization called the Trebols knows more about her gift than she does—and they’ll do anything to control her family, her future, and her life.