Pearl Truesdale

Every year, a letter arrives.

One white.
One black.

Everyone knows the rules.

If the white letter finds you, your life changes forever.

If the black letter finds you, your life ends.

For generations, the Lottery has governed the isolated town of Black Hollow. No one questions it. No one escapes it.

When twenty-two-year-old Ethan Mercer receives a...

SHE DIED. SHE CAME BACK. BUT SOMETHING FOLLOWED.

Sixteen-year-old Christina Walker drowned in the county lake.

She was dead for nearly twenty minutes.

Then, on the way to the hospital, her heart started beating again.

Doctors call it a miracle.

Christina calls it a mistake.

She returned from somewhere beyond death carrying memories she cannot...

Tessa Mirell moves into Blackthorn Apartments believing it will only be temporary—a cheap place to recover after the collapse of her marriage and career. But the aging Los Angeles building has a reputation its tenants rarely speak about aloud.

At night, whispers travel through the walls.

Pipes seem to breathe.

Conversations echo from empty...