The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

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 folklore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Self-injury
  • Car accident
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent (off-page)
  • Murder by suffocation