’Only one girl stands between the living and the dead
Only one girl stands between the light and the Darkness
And only one girl can prevent the old God’s rise
- Because he is hungry for the world, and he is building an army.’
16 year old Taylor Oh is cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a murder victim then they pass a mark beneath her skin. She has three weeks to find their murderer and pass the mark to them - letting justice take place and sending them into the Darkness. And if she doesn’t make it in time? The Darkness will come for her... She spends her life trying to avoid ghosts, make it through school where she’s bullied by popular Justin and his cronies, keep her one remaining friend, and persuade her father that this is real and that she’s not going crazy.
And then Justin is murdered and everything gets a whole lot worse. Justin doesn’t know who killed him, so there’s no obvious person for Taylor to go after. The clues she has lead her to the V Club, a vicious secret-society at her school where no one is allowed to leave... And where Justin was dared to do the stunt which led to his death. Can she find out who was responsible for his murder before the Darkness comes for her? Can she put aside her hatred for her former bully to truly help him? And what happens if she starts to fall for him?
The Society is dark, cool, and incredibly fast-paced with a real emotional punch to her growing feelings for Justin, and her complicated relationship with her father. Bryony envisages it as the first in a series and already has the second two books mapped out – I have attached the synopsis of the second book here.