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The Midnight Ritual
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ISBN13: 9798181151987
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The game doesn't want to win.
It wants to finish.
Forty children vanished from the house on Pine Street.
No bodies. No answers. Only a sealed police file and a trail of names that never stopped growing.
On the last night of summer 1983, six friends break into the abandoned house looking for a story.
It wants to finish.
Forty children vanished from the house on Pine Street.
No bodies. No answers. Only a sealed police file and a trail of names that never stopped growing.
On the last night of summer 1983, six friends break into the abandoned house looking for a story.
Instead, they find a board game waiting for them.
The rules are simple:
Play until sunrise.
Do not leave the circle.
And whatever you give up, you don't get back.
At first, the game asks for small things. Secrets. Promises. Pieces of themselves.
Then the house begins to respond.
Rooms change when no one is looking. Voices speak from empty walls. Memories shift. Every turn costs more than the last.
As the night wears on, the game reveals what it was built to do. It was never meant to choose a winner.
It was meant to decide who gets fed to the house.
To survive until dawn, the six friends must uncover the truth behind the disappearances, the thing waiting inside the house, and the reason the game was left behind.
Because by morning, someone will be gone.
And the house has had forty years to learn patience.
The rules are simple:
Play until sunrise.
Do not leave the circle.
And whatever you give up, you don't get back.
At first, the game asks for small things. Secrets. Promises. Pieces of themselves.
Then the house begins to respond.
Rooms change when no one is looking. Voices speak from empty walls. Memories shift. Every turn costs more than the last.
As the night wears on, the game reveals what it was built to do. It was never meant to choose a winner.
It was meant to decide who gets fed to the house.
To survive until dawn, the six friends must uncover the truth behind the disappearances, the thing waiting inside the house, and the reason the game was left behind.
Because by morning, someone will be gone.
And the house has had forty years to learn patience.
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