7 Souls
Author: Barnabas Miller
Desc: Mary expected her seventeenth birthday to be a blowout to remember courtesy of her best friends fellow New York City prepsters Amy and Joon and her doting boyfriend Trick. Instead the day starts badly and gets worse. After waking up in a mortifying place with a massive unexplainable hangover Mary soon discovers that nobody at school is even aware that it's her birthday. As evening approaches paranoia sets in. Mary just can't shake the feeling that someone is out to get her—and as it turns out she's right. Before the night is over she's been killed in cold blood. But murder is just the beginning of Mary's ordeal. Her soul gets trapped in a strange limbo and she must relive the day of her death through the eyes of seven people—each of whom she finds had plenty of reasons to hate her. As Mary explores the mysteries of her world discovering secrets that were hidden in plain sight while she was alive she clings desperately to the hope that she can solve her own murder change the past and—just maybe—save her own life. With its blend of suspense horror fantasy and realism 7 Souls is an adrenaline rush of a thriller.