Latoya Cunningham

Tazara Bell inherits Belladonna Beauty from her grandmother, Odessa—and one terrifying instruction:Burn the salon before sunset on the seventh day after my funeral.Don’t enter the basement.Don’t take photographs inside.And if you hear me calling your name… that ain’t me.Tazara plans to...

Seventeen-year-old Azaria “Zari” Solís-Carter disappeared Friday night. By Monday morning, everyone at school has a story about what happened. Her boyfriend says she left the party angry. Her best friend says she was scared. A classmate swears she saw Zari crying in the parking lot.

Raina Coles spent sixteen years being the person everyone could count on. She worked two jobs. Paid bills. Covered tuition. Helped keep the family home afloat after her mother died. She sacrificed quietly because that’s what family was supposed to do. Then a denied loan exposes everything.