Grasping the gate, I tried to stand up, but the pain was so searing, I sank back down.
There was no way I was making it around the block. I huddled inside my sweatshirt, despair draining me of any shred of hope. Why had I come to Shaarei Shosh in the first place? Who needed me here?

It should have been a blissful season for Chayala Schur. With graduation approaching and a grand production in the works, the star actress should have been reveling in the party spirit. But no one knows about the dark monsters she grapples with inside. Too soon, she starts plunging down a dangerous slope, trapping the entire school in the worst nightmare imaginable.
Can Shaarei Shoshana survive the sinister force threatening its very existence?