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Don't Join the Group Chat
Paperback
Publisher: Jeffrey Machado
Published: Oct 19 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Seven friends. One missing girl. A group chat that knows things nobody should know.
When Mara Ellis receives a group chat invitation from Nora Finch, a girl who mysteriously disappeared eight months earlier, she knows something is terribly wrong.
Mara presses DECLINE.
The chat adds her anyway.
Within minutes, Mara and six former friends begin receiving disturbing photographs of places they've never visited, horrifying images of events that haven't happened yet, and messages revealing secrets they thought were buried forever.
Then the warnings begin.
Stay together.
Never leave the chat.
And whatever you do, don't forget the people who disappear.
At Hartwell High, the teenagers discover evidence of a hidden room that shouldn't exist, school photographs that mysteriously change, and an eighth student whose identity seems to have been erased from everyone's memories.
But the nightmare is only beginning.
As the mysterious messages become increasingly threatening, the friends discover that leaving the chat carries a terrifying consequence: a person can disappear not only from the world, but from the memories of everyone who ever loved them.
With sinister countdowns, impossible choices, and an unseen presence manipulating their deepest fears, Mara must uncover what happened to Nora and the forgotten student before another name vanishes.
Because something is watching their every message.
Something that knows exactly how to make people disappear.
And it won't stop until someone is left behind.
Don't Join the Group Chat is a chilling young adult supernatural horror thriller packed with haunted technology, terrifying school secrets, disappearing teenagers, psychological suspense, shocking revelations, and a mystery that will make readers think twice before accepting another group chat invitation.
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