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Please Remain Dead
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 26 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Seventeen-year-old Nell Mercer expected her shift at Lost Again charity shop to involve weird donations, rude customers, and counting down the minutes until she could go home.
She did not expect the lost-property box to contain a phone that shouldn't exist.
The phone has one app.
No name. No settings. No way to delete it.
Just a list of missing and dead people.
Including Charlie Vale-a seventeen-year-old boy who disappeared in 2009.
Then Charlie turns up.
Still seventeen.
Still confused.
And very much alive.
Things get considerably worse when Nell finds her own name.
NELL MERCER
STATUS: MISSING
BODY RECOVERED: PENDING
According to the phone, Nell is about to disappear.
Behind a mysterious red door lies something that has been keeping records far longer than it should-and it has rules about things that are lost, things that are found, and people who refuse to stay where they're put.
With the clock ticking towards her own disappearance, Nell will have to figure out what happened to Charlie, uncover the truth behind the phone, and somehow outsmart a system that already knows how her story ends.
Fortunately, Nell has sarcasm, terrible impulse control, and absolutely no respect for supernatural bureaucracy.
She also has a ceramic duck.
That becomes surprisingly important.
A fast-paced YA supernatural mystery packed with dark humour, suspense, missing-person secrets, and one extremely questionable charity shop.
Some things are better left lost.
Others should please remain dead.
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