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    "description": "<p><strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with <em>THE BAD ONES</em>, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history</strong><br /><br /><strong><em>Goddess, goddess, count to five<br /></em></strong><strong><em>In the morning, who's alive?</em></strong><br /><br />In the course of a single winter's night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town.<br /><br />Nora Powell'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 lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games. . . .<br /><br />An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, <em>THE BAD ONES</em> is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.</p>",
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