The Bad Ones

*NEW FROM MELISSA ALBERT – INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HAZEL WOOD*House of Hollow meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, THE BAD ONES is a page-turning supernatural thriller about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history – and one girl searching for the truth. ‘A gripping story of friendship and the supernatural . .
. Albert’s talent for YA fiction is magical and undeniable. I was sucked right into The Bad Ones from the start, and on the edge of my seat until the end.’ IndependentA GAME GONE WRONG.
A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . .
. Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who’s alive?In a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town .
. . Nora’s best friend, Becca, is one of the lost.
Determined to find her, Nora discovers a string of coded messages Becca has left. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years prior and a sinister urban legend: a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games . .
. As Nora unravels the mystery, it’s soon clear there are dark forces at work in her town – and they’ll stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep. ‘A masterful horror-thriller’ Laura Steven’The kind of horror that doesn’t just make you check under your bed – it makes you check your own reflection in the mirror .
. . ’ Ava Reid‘Addictively terrifying’ Courtney Summers, author of SadiePraise for Melissa Albert: ‘I couldn’t put it down’ Karen M.
McManus’Taut, haunting, and potent as a witches brew’ Krystal Sutherland’Every line reads like an incantation’ V.E. Schwab