The Bad OnesThe Bad Ones

Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who's alive? In the course of a single winter's night four people vanish without a trace across a small town. Nora's estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca's disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town's past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games... An arresting crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, The Bad Ones is a poison-pen love letter to semitoxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.